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THE CONFEDERATE REVEILLE 



MEMORIAL EDITION. 



PUBLISHED BY 

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WASHINGTON, N. C, MAY 10, 1898, 



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4 Contents. 

Lt. Thomas L. Perry... Reveille 82 

Appointment of a Lady ...Contributed 83 

Stars and Bars - - - Reveille 88 

The Mosquito Fleet J. J. B. 84 

Jefferson Davis' Estimate of North Carolina Troops Reveille 80 

Beaufort County Soldiers, 1861-1865. J. J. B. 88 

Pitt County Soldiers, 1861-1865 Henry T. King 94 

Craven County Soldiers, 1861^1865 Maj. Graham Daves 101 

(iov. Zebulon Baird Vance Capt. Jno. B. MacRae 106 

The South ( Poem) . Father Ryan 109 

Hon. George Davis Contributed 110 

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Beaufort County. Bryan Grimes Camp. 

Rev. N. Harding 118 

List of North Carolina Generals Col. Alston Grimes 115 

North Carolina at Appomattox Hon. Walter Clark 122 

The Taking of Hattecas Hon. William H. Patrick 124 

Ladies Memorial Association Contributed 1 25 

Reinterment of Soldiers Mrs. Maggie Arthur Call 127 

Memorial Day and Our Orator. 128 

United Daughters of the Confederacy Mrs. J. Bryan Grimes 181 

Roster of the United Daughters of the Confederacy 185 

Children of the Confederacy Mrs Maggie Arthur Call 144 

Roster of the Camps of the United Confederate Veterans of N. C. 145 

Staff of Maj. -Gen. William DeRosset. U. C. V 147 

Wit and Humor. . 147 



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INTRODUCTORY. 

t^ i^ V?* 

fO^PEEPETUATE the memory of our heroes who 
wore the Gray, we, the Pamhco Chapter U. D. C, 
issue this tenth da}^ of May, eighteen hundred and ninety- 
eight, a memorial edition of " The Eeveihe, " a paper 
pubhshed at Washington twelve years ago, for the pur- 
pose of aiding the ex- Confederate and Ladies Memorial 
Association of Beaufort, in removing the remains of the 
Coafederate dead, in different portions of Beaufort 
County, to some appropriate spot and erect to their mem- 
ory a monument worthy of the Banner we adore and 
of the " cold dead hands who bore it." When o'er the 
Southland echoed the call to action, these sons of dear 
old Carolina, without wavering, without faltering, res- 
ponded to the bugle call. 

'•On, where swords were clanging, clashing. 
On, where balls were crushing, crashing," 
" On to victory or death." 

And shall not their deeds go sounding down the ages ? 
With hearts filled with reverence and tears, we have 
gathered from records of the past, and from the pens of 
our living, a few accounts of that brave band who now 
await the reveille of the resurrection morn. What 
greater honor could Carolina's daughters wish than to 
tell in song and story of her sons who died for her. 
Voices of her waters echo as they flow, voices of her 
pines sighing their requiem to the dead, tell of the pride 
and love that the bivouac fire of memory keeps burning- 
eve r of the 

"Valiant hosts now scattered." 

Mrs. W. B. Morton. 



Committee on pinonce. 
Miss Elizabeth S. Latham. 



Committee on History. 
Miss Lida T. Rodman. Mrs. C. M. Payne, 

Mrs. Mar3^ Grimes Smith, " Miss Jennie J. Burbank; 

Miss E. M. B. Hoyt, Miss Margaret Blount, 

Miss Janie Myers. 



Committee on Miscellanies. 
Mrs. W. B. Morton, Mrs. S. C. Bragaw. 



Committee on Poetry. 
Mrs. Jennie Jarvis. 



Committee on Wit and Humor. 

Miss Kate L. Carraway, Mrs. J. B. Grimes, 

Mrs. T. T. Beckwith. 



Advertising Committee. 
Miss Alice Bogart, Mrs. Jno. Gaskell, 

Miss Margaret G. Hoyt, Mrs. Jno. Marsh, 

Miss vS. M. Gallagher, Mrs. Jos. F. Tayloe. 



THE CONFEDERATE REVEILLE, 

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WASHINGTON DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 

On March l-tth, 1862, New Berne was captured by 
the Federal forces under General Burnside. The can- 
nonade could be distinctly heard at Washington. Just 
before the battle at New Berne the bridge over Pamlico 
River at Washington was partially destroyed by incen- 
dary fire, at night, to prevent the Confederates from 
uniting with the command of General Branch defend- 
ing New Berne. Upon the fall of New Berne the town 
of Washington was evacuated by the Confederate for- 
ces, which included a Georgia regiment, commanded by 
Colonel McMillan. All that part of Eastern North Car- 
olina adjacent to Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds and 
the rivers emptying into them passed under Federal 
control, and remained until the capture of Plymouth by 
the Confederates under General Hoke, a period of iwo 
years. The limits of Federal occupation, however, were 
closely confined to the sounds and navigable streams 
and to the garrisoned towns upon them. 

THE ENTRANCE OF FEDERALS. 

On March 20th, 1882, the Twenty-fourth Massachu- 
setts, Colonel Stevenson, w^as sent from New Berne to 
Washington on the transport Guide, accompanied by 
the gunboats, Delaware, Louisiana and Commodore Bar- 



8 The Coyifedercite Reveille. 

ney. This expedition was stopped the next morning six 
miles below the town by the blockade which the Con- 
federates had placed across the river at Hill's Point. 
This blockade consisted of rows of piling driven into the 
l)ed of the river and sawed off about three feet below 
the surface of the water. The gunboat, Delaware, 
with two companies, passed the blockade and landed at 
the wharves of the town. The transport and other 
gunboats remained at the blockade. At this time \Yash- 
ington had bsen entirely evacuated by the Confederates, 
and no resistance was encountered. The two compa- 
nies, preceded by the regimental band, marched from 
the wharf to the court-house and hoisted the Stars and 
Stripes. The band played national airs and the men 
cheered. They then marched through the principal 
streets to the gunboat, and the fleet returned to New 
Berne. These were the first Federal soldiers to enter 
the town. The Colonel in his report states that he saw 
some evidences of Union sentiment among the citizens 
of the town. It was probably confined to few individ- 
uals. Soon after the return of the expedition to New 
Berne a permanent garrison, consistiug of cavalry, in- 
fantry and artillery occupied the toAvn and held it 
until the spring of 18tU. Gunboats were anchored in 
the river in front of the town. After the occupation of 
the town there were a number of affairs between out- 
posts, including a spirited action at Tranter's Creek, on 
June 5th, 18(32, between the Forty-fourth North Caro- 
lina, Colouel George B. Singeltary. and eight companies 
of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts, , Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel F. A. Osborn, one company of the Third New York 



The Confederate Reveille. 9 

Cavalry, Captain Jocknick, and two pieces of Marine 
Artillery. Lieutenant Avery. 

The gunboat, Picket, Captain Nicoll, went up the 
river shelling the woods between the river and the 
Greenville road. She was too far distant from the scene 
of action at Hardison's Mill, upon Tranter's Creek, to 
take part in it. Colonel Singeltary was killed and sev- 
eral wounded on the part of the Confederates. Unfor- 
tunately there are no official Confederate reports of this 
action published in the War Eecords. The Federals lost 
4 killed and 1 1 wounded, three of them mortally. From 
all accounts the Federals returned to Washington much 
demoralized. After the death of Colonel Singeltary, 
fearing a landing of troops in the rear from the gun- 
boat, the Confederates also retreated. 

THE SEPTEMBER A'lTACK. 

About 4 o'clock on the morning of September 6th, 
1S6:>, a Confederate force, consisting of infantry, cavalry 
and a battery of artillery, under the command of Gen- 
eral J. G. Martin, attacked the town. The Federal gar- 
rison then consisted of five companies of the Third New 
York Cavalry, Colonel Mix, two companies (G and H) 
of the Third New York Artillery, two companies of the 
Twenty-fourth Massachusetts, and two companies of the 
First North Carolina (Union). Two gunboats, the 
Picket, Captain Nicoll, and the Louisiana, Captain Ren- 
shaw, were anchored in front of the town. The Picket 
was just above the bridge, near the blockade, and the 
Louisiana just below the bridge, opposite the Havens' 
warehouse. The Federal garrison, including the crews 



1(1 The Confederate Reveille. 

of the two gunboats, numbered about 1,000 men. The 
Confederates had about the same number of men. There 
are no official Confederate reports of the engagement 
pubhshed in the War Records, and their strength, com- 
position and losses are not given. The battery of artil- 
lery was the Adams battery, raised in Beaufort County. 
Among the cavalry was the company commanded by 
Captain Rufus S. Tucker raised in Wake and Johnston 
counties and recruited in Pitt county. There were de- 
tachments from the Seventeenth North Carolina and 
other infantry regiments. A number of citizens, who 
had moved away when the town was occupied by the 
Federals, accompanied the attacking force and acted as 
guides. The Confederates surprised the outer line of 
pickets, killing and wounding them, and, dashing into 
the tow a, surprised a company of artillery, in barracks 
at the Academy, capturing -t brass 6-pounders and some 
prisoners. These guns had been captured from A. C. 
Latham's battery by the Federals at New Berne. The 
Confederate infantry approached the town through the 
Grist field and entered at the west end. The cavalry 
and artillery entered by the Greenville road. Just be- 
fore the cavalry turned into Bridge Street from the 
Greenville road, Captain Booth, commanding the cav- 
alry, was shot by one of the Federal pickets and was 
dangerously wounded. The command of the cavalry 
then 'devolved upon Captain Tucker. The attack was 
made' with great spirit before daylight. There was con- 
siderable fog in the early morning which, together with 
the darkness, made it difficult to distinguish friend from 
foe. At the time of the attack there were some field 



The Confederate Reveille. 11 

works and blockhouses, but the formidable chain of 
forts and intrench ments around the town were con- 
structed later in the war. The Federals were surprised, 
but still were not unprepared. As the Confederates en- 
tered the town from the west, four companies of cavalry 
and a battery of artillery from the garrison had formed 
and were marching from town at the east end for Ply- 
mouth to co-operate with the Federal gunboats upon 
Roanoke River in attacking Hamilton. This column 
was just emerging from the town as the firing began at 
the west end. The column counter-marched at a gallop, 
and one company charged up Main Street, encounter- 
ing some squads of Confederate cavalry near Market 
Street, -driving them back upon the infantry, which by 
this time had advanced to Bridge Street. The Federal 
cavalry were then repulsed with loss. Two companies 
of Federal cavalry charged up Second and Third Streets, 
but were driven back by the Confederates. Upon 
Second Street the Confederates planted a piece of artil- 
lery in front of the Methodist church and opened fire 
upon a Federal gun at the intersection of Second and 
Respess streets. The elms were in full leaf and the 
street between the two guns was filled with branches 
shot from the trees. On Main Street squads of Confed- 
erate cavalry and infantry advanced as far east as Mar- 
ket Street. Just after the fight opened the Picket blew 
up, killing her captain and 19 of the crew and wound- 
ing f) others. The cause of the explosion was not 
clearly ascertained, but was probably due to carelessness 
or accident in opening the magazine when her men were 
ordered to quarters. The wreck still lies in the river 



12 The Confederate Reveille. 

near the blockade. Wheu Burnside's expedition entered 
Hatteras Inlet be had his headquarters upon this gun- 
boat Picket. Colonel Potter, the commandant of the 
post, plaated at the intersection of Main and Bridge 
streets a 12 -pounder, supported by his entire infantry 
force, and opened fire upon the Confederates between 
Main and Second streets and around the Academy. The 
firing in this part of the town was very sharp and con- 
tinued for nearly three hours, the combatants approach- 
ing within fifty or sixty yards of each other and firing 
across lots from behind houses and fences. A number 
of men were here killed and wounded upon both sides 
and two sets of gunners were shot down at the Federal 
gun. Both sides held on vdth great tenacity. The Fed- 
eral infant r}^ were driven back to the warehouses upon 
the wharves under the cover of the guns of the Loui- 
siana, but still kept up a hot fire. The Louisiana then 
turned her guns upon the town and threw shot and shell 
through that part from the Havens' residence west- 
ward. Few houses in the line of her fire escaped and 
after the fight that part of the town presented a shat- 
tered and wrecked appearance. What is now the Satch- 
well residence was completely riddled. At times the 
fire of the gunboat was silenced by the fire of the Con- 
federate infantry. Cavahy fighting in the meantime 
was going on in the outskirts and different streets of the 
town, extending as far east as Market Street. The Fed- 
eral cavalry made a dash down Bridge Street and a hand 
to hand fight occurred in front of the James W. Red- 
ding and the DeMille residences. Several men were 
killed and wounded at this point and the Federal squad- 



The Confederate Reveille. 13 

ron was driven back with loss. Mrs. Redding, in the 
front room of her house, was wounded. The marks of 
this fight are still to be seen upon the porch in front of 
the house. Failing to surprise the garrison by reason 
of the detachment for Plymouth being already formed 
and upon the march and unable to silence the fire of the 
gunboat, the Confederates withdrew, carrying with 
them the four captured guns. It was a well contested 
action and creditable to the gallantry of both sides. The 
Federals lost :3T killed, 53 wounded and i missing, ac- 
cording to their report. They claimed to ha\^e found 12 
dead and 12 wounded Confederates upon the streets and 
to have captured 20 prisoners. The Confederates car- 
ried off a part of their dead and wounded. It is probable 
that the loss on each side was about equal. Wm. 0. Res- 
pess was severely wounded upon the porch of the Carra- 
way residence, on the west side of Bridge Street, between 
Main and Second streets, while firing upon the Federal 
gunners serving the gun at the foot of Bridge Street. 

THE SIEGE. 

The Confederate forces ander Greneral D. H. Hill be- 
gan the siege of the town on March 30th, 18()3. The 
object of General Hiirs movement in Eastern North 
Carolina was to collect supplies of corn, meat and forage 
for the Confederate armies and to capture the town of 
Washington and its garrison. Unfortunately, the Con- 
federates had no gunboats or ironclads, as at Plymouth 
the next year, to effectually close and command the 
river. This was the weak point in the investment of 
the town and permitted the passage at night of vessels 
and transports carrying ammunition, commissary stores 



14: The Confederate Reveille. 

and reiijforcements to the garrison. The besieging force 
consisted of the brigades of Daniel and Pettigrew, on the 
south side of PamHco River, and the brigade of Gar- 
net t of Pickett's division, upon the north side. There 
weTQ a number of batteries of artillery and some cavalry. 
In all the force under General Hill engaged in the siege, 
numbered about 9,00(i men. The Confederates seized 
HilPs Point, occupied the old fort constructed by 
them at the beginning of the war and held in check 
the large fleet of Federal gunboats and transports en- 
deavoring to force the passage of the river and relieve 
the garrison of the town. Rodman's Quarter was also 
seized by the Confederates and a battery of Whitworth 
guns placed in position. The brigades of Daniel and 
Pettigrew, extending from Chocowinity Cross-roads to 
Blount's Creek, covered the rear of the forts and pre- 
vented the relief of the garrison by the Federal forces 
at New Berne. The Federal garrison consisted of eight 
companies each of the Twenty-seventh and Forty-fourth 
Massachusetts, two companies of the First North Caro- 
lina (Union), one company of the Third New York cav- 
alry and one company of the Third New Yoik Artillery. 
The gunboats, Louisiana, Commodore Hull, Eagle and 
Ceres were in front of the town. The garrison, at the 
beginning of the siege, numbered about 1,500 men. On 
the night of April 13th, the transport Escort ran the 
batteries with the Fifth Rhode Island, raising the 
strength of the garrison to about 2,000 men. The for- 
tifications around the town were well constructed and 
were of great strength. A deep moat, for the greater 
part filled with water, ran along the front of the works. 



The Confederate Reveille. 15 

The woods had been felled around the town for a half 
mile or more in front of the fortification^ to allow the 
play of the guns and to render attack difficult. During 
the progress of the siege the Federals continued at night 
to strengthen their works. A fort was constructed in- 
side the town at the foot of the bridge to command the 
river road and the streets of the town. The fort was 
levelled after the war. They built forts upon the river 
front, above the bridge, and upon the Castle Island, sit- 
uated in the river opposite the town. The Confederates 
did not attempt to assault the works, hoping to reduce 
the town by siege. The fleet of gunboats below Hill's 
Point daily engaged the Confederate batteries without 
effect. Fearing to land and to attempt the capture of 
the fort by assault on account of the strength of the 
position and the supporting force under Pettigrew, the 
transports with the troops returned to New Berne. The 
Federals marched overland from New Berne under the 
command of General Spinola. The forces of Spinola, 
numbering over 8,()0() men, were met by General Petti- 
grew on April iHh, at Ruff's Mill, upon Blount's Creek, 
and were driven back. The Confederates constructed 
a battery in the swamp at the foot of the Old Ferry 
road, just opposite the town, and opened fire upon the 
gunboats, but were unable to hold the position. Every 
day during the continuance of the siege the Confederate 
batteries engaged the Federal forts and gunboats. Many 
shot and shelFTell in the town especially from the bat- 
tery of Whit worth guns at Rodman's Quarter. Some 
of the citizens constructed bombproof s upon their lets, 
and when the firing became hot would seek their pro- 



16 The Confederate Reveille. 

tection. Unable to effectually blockade the river, and 
in consequence of orders to despatch a large part of the 
besieging force to reinforce the army of Northern Vir- 
ginia, the Confederates, on April loth, raised the siege 
of the town. The capture of the town by assault would 
not have justified the sacrifice of life required. To judge 
of the severity of the artillery fire, the Commodore Hull 
was hit in the first four days of the siege by ninety- 
eight shots from the battery of Whitworth guns. An 
act of great gallantry was performed by the Federal 
commander. General Foster. After the reinforcement 
of the garrison by the Fifth Rhode Island. Greneral Fos- 
ter, at daylight, on April 15th, ran the Confederate bat- 
teries in the steamer Escort. The steamer was hit forty 
times and the pilot at the wheel was killed by a rifle 
shot. The losses on both sides during the siege w ere 
small. The brigades of Garnett, Daniel and Pettigrew 
were soon transferred to the Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia. They formed a part of Lee's army in the inva- 
sion of Pennsylvania and sustained great losses at Gettys- 
burg. 

THE BURNING OF THE TOWN. 

The (confederates under General Hoke, on April ^Oth, 
1 >>64. captured the town of Plymouth with its garrison 
of nearly 8,000 men. It was a brilliant operation and 
reflected great credit upon General Hoke and his com- 
mand. The ram Albemarle soon after the surrender 
of Plymouth was sunk by Lieutenant Gushing with a 
torpedo. Had it not been for this misfortune, it is 
highly probable that AVashington and New Berne would 
have shared the fate of Plymouth and all Eastern North 



The Confederate Reveille. IT 

Carolina been restored to the Confederacy. Immediately 
upon the fall of Plymouth General Harland, in com- 
mand at Washington, was ordered to evacuate the town. 
On April 3Uth, the last Federal troops, after firing differ- 
ent portions of the town, embarked. For the three pre- 
ceding days the town was given up to sack and pillage. 
The plundering was not confined to the public stores and 
supplies, but was general and indiscriminate. General 
I. N. Palmer, who is still pleasantly remembered by the 
citizens of Eastern North Carolina for his kindness and 
consideration as w^ell as for his soldierly qualities, at 
that time commanded the District of North Carolina. 
He was an honorable foe. In the general orders issued 
after the evacuation, he thus characterizes these out- 
rages: ''It is also well known that the army vandals did 
not even respect the charitable institutions, but burst- 
ing open the doors of the Masonic and Odd Fellows 
lodges, pillaged them both and hawked about the streets 
the regalia and jewels. 

It is also well known, too, that both public and pri- 
vate stores were entered and plundered, and that de- 
vastation and destruction ruled the hour. 

The commanding general had until this time believed 
it impossible that any troops in his command could have 
committed so disgracefuL an act as this, which now 
blackens the fair fame of the Army of North Carolina. 
He finds, however, that ]ie was sadly mistaken, and 
that the ranks are disgraced by men who are not sol- 
diers, but thieves and scoundrels, dead to all sense of 
honor and humanity, for whom no punishment can be 
too severe.'' 



18 The Confederate Reveille. 

A board of investigation, presided over by Colonel 
James AV. Savage, Twelfth New York Cavalry, among 
other things, reported as follows: " At about 11 p. m. 
on 26th of April, 1864, Brigadier-General Harland, in 
command at Washington, N. C, received orders to evac- 
uate that place, and in pursuance of his instructions the 
post was finally abandoned about 4 p. m. on the 8(ith. 
The intended evacuation seems to have become known, 
or to have been generally suspected, on Wednesday the 
•2Tth of April. During the afternoon of that day there 
appears to have been instances of theft, and before 
morning of Thursday pillaging commenced, at first in 
the Quartermaster's store of the First North Carolina 
(rnion) Volunteers, which during the day became 
general. Government stores, sutlers' establishments, 
dwelling houses, private shops and stables, suffered 
alike. Gangs of men patrolled the city, breaking into 
houses and wantonly destroying such goods as they 
could not carry away. The occupants and owners were 
insulted and defied in their feeble endeavors to protect 
their property. The influence and authority of officers, 
though sufficient to restrain these excesses when they 
were personally present, was forgotten or set at naught 
as soon as they vvere out of sight, and the sack was 
checked only by the lack of material to pillage, and 
C3ased only with the final abandonment of the town. 
It is claimed, and may be true, that some portion of 
these outrages arose from a general impression that a 
large amount of stores and property would, upon the 
abaadonment of the place, either be destroyed or left 
to fall into the hands of the enemy, but this is probably 



The Confederate Reveille. 19 

. not seriously regarded by any one as a justification, or 
even palliation, of the utterly lawless and wanton char- 
a^cter of the plundering. ' ' 

The fire broke out at lo o'clock in the morning of 
April 30th, as the last Federal troops were embarking. 
It burned from the river through to the northern limits 
of the town, extending from YanNorden nearly to Res- 
psss streets, and spreading both to the east and west as 
the flames advanced. The bridge was fired and de- 
stroyed and the fire extended to that portion of the 
town. Quite one third of the town was consumed. 
Other fires were kindled, but extinguished by the citi- 
zens. No military necessity required the burning of 
the town. It was not necessary to cover the evacuation 
or to aid the escape of the garrison. Mo hostile force 
was then investing the town. The Confederates took 
possession in a few days and an accidental fire broke 
out and the flames, fanned by a high wind, consumed a 
large part of the town east of Market Street. After this 
baptism of fire the town was desolate and ruined. 
There were scarcely five hundred inhabitants remaining 
of what had been an enterprising and prosperous town 
of thirty-five hundred three years before. Many of 
its citizens left before the Federal occupation and 
sought refuge in the interior towns of the State and 
elsewhere. They remained where the chances of war 
cairied them, as their property and homes were de- 
stroyed. The entire colored population departed at the 
evacuation. The streets were deserted and the stores 
and most of the private residences were unoccupied. 
No work or business of any kind went on in the town. 



20 The Confederate Reveille. 

The work of restoration has been slow. For many years 
the chimneys stood to mark the path of the conflagra- 
tion, and, even now, after the lapse of a third of a cen- 
tury, the waste places have not all been built up. No 
town gave more freely of its men and means, and no 
town suffered more for the cause of the Confederacy. 

Charles F. Warren. 



Major-General BRYAN GRIMES. 



Bryan Grimes, a Major General in the Provisional 
Army of the Confederate States of America, was born 
November 2, 1S28, at Grimesland; assassinated A.ugust 
14, 1880. 

He received an academic education at Bingham School, 
N. C, aild graduated at the University of North Caro- 
lina, 1818. On his return from Euroj)e, 1860, he became 
a member of the '' Secession Convention." The ordi- 
nance of secession being signed May 20, 1861, he resigned 
his seat in the Convention and offered his services to 
Governor Ellis, who commissioned him Major of Fourth 
North Carolina State Troops, then organizing at Garys- 
burg. On May 1 st he was appointed Lieutenant Colo- 
nel of his regiment. 

At Seven Pines Lieutenant Colonel Grimes led his 
regiment into battle with twenty-five officers and five 
hundred and twenty non-conmiissioned officers and men; 
out of that number four hundred and sixty-two men 
and every officer except himself were either killed or 

* Extracts from Peele's '' Lives of Distinguished North Caroilnians," 
and H. A. London's Memorial Address. 



The Confederate Reveille. 21 

wounded. Such carnage is almost unparalleled in the 
annals of war and seems incredible. ^ ^ '' In attack- 
ing the enemy's fortifications his horse's head was blown 
off by a can non ball ; the horse fell so suddenl^y as to catch 
his foot and leg under it. The regiment, thinking him 
killed, began to falter, when he waved his sword and 
shouted, ''Forward! Forward!" Whereupon, some of 
his men coming to his assistance, pulled the horse off, 
and he sprang to his feet, seized the flag of the regi- 
ment, that was lying on the ground (the color-bearer and 
all color-guard having been killed or wounded), and 
rushing forward, captured the fortifications. 

He was appointed Colonel of the Fourth Eegiment, 
June 19, 1862. After the battle of Mechanicsville, Gen- 
eral Anderson complimented the Fourth Eegiment,, say- 
ing: '' That, although small in numbers. Colonel Grimes 
and his regiment is the keystone of my brigade." In 
November, 1862, he was assigned to the temporary 
command of Anderson's Brigade, which he commanded 
at Fredericksburg and until February, 1863. 

At the battle of Boonsboro Colonel Grimes had another 
horse killed under him ; and just here it may be proper 
to mention, that altogether, during the war, he had 
seven horses killed under him in battle. 

The first and second days at Chancellorsville Colonel 
Grimes fought his regiment with desperate valor, and 
on th^ third day charged over troops who refused to go 
forv^ard, and crossed bayonets with the enemy. In this 
charge Colonel Grimes' sword was severed by a ball, his 
clothing perforated in many places — a ball imbedded in 
his sword belt and scabbard, and he received a severe 
3 



22 The Co7ifed€rate Reveille. 

contusion on the foot. The regmient here had forty-six 
killed and one hundred and fifty-seven wounded, out of 
three hundred and twenty-seven officers and men car- 
ried into action. Truly, may we cld;im that this charge 
was as gallant, daring and self-sacrificing as the world- 
renowned charge of " the immortal six hundred '' at 
Balaklava. 

On the advance into Pennsylvania Colonel Grimes 
with his regiment dispersed the Pennsylvania militia, 
and went on pic]:et duty eight miles from Harrisburg. 
At Gettysburg he and his regiment were the first to en- 
ter the town, and drove the enemy through Gettysburg 
to the heights beyond, capturing more prisoners than 
there were men in his command. Had this temporary 
success been followed promptly by Lee's army, Gettys- 
burg would not have sounded the death knell of the 
Southern Confederacy. In the retreat from Pennsylva- 
nia Colonel Grimes was placed in the rear guard and 
assisted efficiently in protecting the retreating army. It 
seems always to have been the fate of this officer to oc- 
cupy the post of honor and danger^ — ^in the front in 
every advance, and in the rear in every retreat, begin- 
ning with Yorktown in 'f)2, and ending at Appomattox 
in 'Ho. This fact speaks louder than any words, the 
great confidence placed in hini by his superior officers. 
He declined to represent the Second District of North 
Carolina in October, 1868, " preferring to remain in ac- 
tive service in the field until peace and independence 
was secured." 

On May 12, 1864, the enemy captured the Confeder- 
ate breastworks at the Horse Shoe, also many guns and 



The Confederate Reveille. 23 

two thousand of General Edward Johnson's men. The 
gallant Kamseur being wounded in attempting to retake 
the breastv/orks, Colonel Grimes, on his own responsi- 
bility, ordered a second charge, himself leading it, and 
recovered the entire works and all the guns, capturing 
many prisoners and killing more of the enemy than the 
brigade numbered men. General Lee himself rode down 
and thanked them, telling them they deserved the 
thanks of the country — they had saved his army. 

On May 12th, General Daniel, being mortally wounded, 
requested that Colonel Grimes be assigned to his com- 
mand. On June 5th Colonel Grimes received his com- 
mission as Brigadier General. The commission bearing 
the date, May IDth, on w^hich day he handled the brigade 
with such efficiency that the Division Commander, 
General Rodes (between whom and Colonel Grimes 
t lie re had been an estrangement), approached him soon 
after the battle and shaking his hand, said, " You have 
saved Swell's corps, and shall be projnoted. and your 
commission shall bear date from this day." The Fourth 
Regiment made application to be transferred to the 
brigade of its old commander, in which Colonel Grimes 
most heartily joined, but their request was not granted. 

In the summer of 18H4, General Grimes was w4th 
Early's forces in the valley; Early's forces were gener- 
ally victorious until September 19th. Here General 
Grimes had his horse killed under him and nearly every 
member of his staff severely wounded. Early was again 
defeated October 19th, at Cedar Creek, by overwhel- 
ming numbers. General Grimes made desperate efforts 
to stem the tide, exposing himself with an utter indif- 



24 The Confederate Reveille. 

ference to danger in his efforts to rally the panic-stricken 
troops, and having two horses killed under him at this 
battle. Here the heroic Eamseur was mortally wounded 
and General rfrimes placed in command of his Division, 
and retained that command until Lee's surrender, his 
commission as Major Cleneral being issued the following- 
February. 

On November i^^, 1864, Grimes' attenuated Division 
by itself routed four thousand o\ Sheridan's formidable 
cavalry. 

Grimes' Division at Petersburg held over three miles 
of the ' ' trenches, ' * and at Fort Stedman captured the 
enemy's works, sending to the rear as prisoners a Gen- 
eral and five hundred men. Pickett's Division failed to 
support, and the enemy soon collected a force ten times 
as large as ours, and compelled our men to withdraw 
after a most stubborn fight of two hours. In this short 
engagement Grimes' Divison lost four hundred and sev- 
enty-eight officers and men In this fight General 
Grimes was the only Confederate on horseback, riding 
a captured horse, thus rendering himself a conspicuous 
target for the enemy's fire; but, notwithstanding his 
great danger, he rode up and down the lines, urging on 
and encouraging his men, who, enthused with admira- 
tion of his dauntless courage, cheered him most lustily. 

On April 5, before dayhght, the enemy captured part 
of our lines, known as Kune's Salient, and held by Bat- 
tle's Alabama Brigade. In a few moments General 
Grimes on foot rushed down the line, calling on his old 
brigade to follow him, and began rallying the troops 
who were retiring before the advancing enemy. Seizing 



The Confederate Reveille. 25 

a musket from a soldier, he himself opened fire on the 
enemy, and by his cool courage soon restored confidence 
to his men, and the enemy's further advance was 
checked. The fighting was desperate and bloody, and 
if all Lee's army could have held back the enemy that 
day as successfully as did Grimes' Division, Petersburg 
Avould not that night have been evacuated. 

On April T, the Division made a brilliant charge and 
recaptured the lines from which Mahone's Division had 
just been driven. General Lee was near and saw this 
charge, and at once sent for General Grimes, and per- 
sonally thanked him for this service. Before daylight 
on the morning of the 9th, Grimes' Division, which 
always occupied the post of greatest danger, was hur- 
ried from the rear, where it had been covering the re- 
treat, and placed in advance. Here General Grimes, 
becoming impatient at a long conference between Gen- 
erals Fitzhugh Lee and Gordon as to which should at- 
tack, said it was some one's duty, and that at once, and 
he would undertake it ; whereupon General Gordon told 
him to do so, and placed, in addition to his own divis- 
ion, the other two divisions of the corps, Evans' and 
Walker's; Bushrod Johnson's Divison and Wise's Brig- 
ade, having been placed under his command two or 
three days previously. General Grimes attacked the 
enemy and drove them back nearly a mile, taking a 
great number of prisoners and several pieces of artil- 
lery. He then sent a message to General Gordon an- 
nouncing his success, and that the road to Lynchburg 
was now open. This was the last effort of the expiring 
Confederacy. 



26 The Confederate Reveille. 

In concluding his account of the surrender at Ap- 
pomattox, General Grimes said : ' ' Upon reaching my 
troops^and being asked by one of the soldiers if Lee had 
surrendered; and upon answering, that I feared it was 
a fact that we had been surrendered, he cast away his 
musket and holding his hands aloft, cried in an agonized 
voice, 'Blow, Gabriel, blow! My God^ let him blow, I 
am ready to die f 

We then went beyond the creek at Appomattox 
Court House, stacked arms, amid the bitter tears of 
bronzed veterans, regretting the necessity of capitula- 
tion. Among the incidents evev fresh in my memory 
of this fatal day, is the remark of a private soldier. 
When riding up to my old regiment to shake by the 
hand each comrade who had followed me through four 
years of suffering, and toil, and privation often worse 
than death, to bid them a final, affectionate, and in 
many instances an eternal farewell, a cadaverous, bare- 
footed, ragged man grasped me by the arm and choking 
with sobs, said: ''Good bye. General; God bless you; 
we Avill go home, make three more crops, and then try 
them again!'' I mention this instance simply to show 
the spirit, the pluck and the faith of our men in the 
justice of our cause, and that they surrendered more to 
grim famine than to the prowress of our enemy. "^ '^ 
But the end had come, the Army of Northern Virginia 
had surrendered, the star of the young Confederacy had 
forever set, its tattered and blood-stained banners were 
forever furled, and its brave defenders, with ' ' the con- 
sciousness of duty well performed, ' ' returned to their 
desolated homes and devastated fields. """ '" ^ 



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THE FOURTH REGIMENT N. C S. T. 



Perhaps the history of no single regiment of the Con- 
federate Army presents a bloodier chapter than the 
plain, unvarnished record of the Fourth Regiment North 
Carolina State Troops. 

This regiment, which enlisted " for the war '' was or- 
ganized in May, ISOl, at Garysburg, N. C, and was 
mustered into the Confederate service June 28th, 18f)l. 

Its original officers were Colonel G. B. Anderson, 
Lieutenant Colonel John A. Young; Major Bryan 
Grimes, etc. It was afterwards at different times un- 
der the command of those gallant soldiers, James H. 
Wood, A. K. Simonton, D. M. Carter, W. T. Marsh, 
John W. Durham, J. F. Stancill, E. A. Osborne and J. 
B. Forcum. The adjutants were Thomas L. Perry, W. 
S. Barnes, etc. Of the ten (10) companies composing 
this regiment three (3) were from Iredell County; two 
(2) from Rowan; one (1) from Wayne; one (1) from 
Wilsou; one {1) from Davie, and two {2) companies, E. 
and I., from Beaufort. 

The officers of Company E. were Captain D. M. Car- 
ter ; First Lieutenant, Thomas L. Perry ; Second Lieu- 
tenant, E. J. Redding; Second Lieutenant, Daniel P. 
Latham. 

The officers of Company I. were: Captain W. T. 
Marsh; First Lieutenant, Leo R. Creekman; Second 
Lieutenant, Noah B. Suten; Second Lieutenant, Bryan 
Bonner. 

Space will not allow a sketch of this regiment, but it 



28 



The Confederate Reveille. 



was engaged at the following places and in the "Valley 
Campaign" occasionally twice at the same place: 



Williamsburg. 
Yorktown. 
Seven Pines. 
Meclianicsville. 
Cold Harbor. 
Malvern Hill. 
Second Manassas. 
Seven Days' Fight Around Rich- 
mond. 
Boonsboro. 
Sharpsburg. 
Port Royal. 
Fredericksburg. 
Chancellorsville. 
Brandy Station. 
Upper ville, 
Berry ville. 
Martinsburg. 
Gettysburg. 
Front Royal. 
Snicker's Gap. 
Morton's Ford. 
Mine Run. 
Monocacy. 
Frederick City. 



Rock ville. 

Centre ville. 

Warrenton Junction. 

Catlett's Station. 

Germania Ford. 

Wilderness. 

Spottsylvania Court-House. 

Near Winchester. 

Winchestester. 

Charlestown. 

Shepardstown. 

Stevenson's Depot. 

Bunker Hill. 

Strasburg. 

New Market. 

Port Republic. 

Fisher's Hill. 

Cedar Creek. 

Trenches at Petersburg. 

Hare's Hill. 

Rune's Salient. 

Ream's Station. 

Sailor's Creek. 

Appomattox, 



At Seven Pines the regiment justly earned its subri- 
quet of the " Bloody Fourth." The regiment was here 
commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Grimes, who 
led the charge, and was the only officer surviving the 
fight unwounded. The Fourth went into this fight with 
520 men and 25 officers — "the noble 545." In carry- 
ing the works it lost 462 men and 24 officers killed and 
wounded ; this w^as the bloodiest charge of the war. In 



The Confederate Reveille. 29 

this battle all the color-guard being killed, the intrepid 
and heroic John Stikeleather became color-bearer, and 
proudly bore the banner to its surrender at Appomattox. 

At Cold Harbor Colonel Bryan Grimes led the victo- 
rious charge, carrying the colors on horse-back until his 
horse was killed under him. In this action the regi- 
ment, which was reduced to only 150 men, lost 8 killed 
and 50 wounded. 

At Sharpsburg all the commissioned officers being- 
killed or wounded, the " faithful few,'' as General Hill 
called them, was commanded by an orderly Sergeant = 
In this fight the heroic Major W. T. Marsh was killed 
while gallantly leading the regiment. 

At Chanceilorsville the regiment, charging over the 
backs of troops who refused to go forward when or- 
dered, crossed bayonets with the enemy and lost 4H 
killed, 157 wounded and 58 captured, out of 327 officers 
and men. 

The regiment was provost guard at Hagerstown, Mary- 
land. In invading Pennsylvania, the Fourth occupied 
Carlyle, eleven (11) miles from Harrisburg, the furthest 
point north that was reached by any other Confed- 
erate regiment. 

At Gettysburg the Fourth was the first regiment to 
enter the town, and could easily have occupied the 
heights but for a blunder of superior officers. In the 
first day's fight this regiment captured more prisoners 
than it numbered men. The second and third day it was 
held in reserve; on the fourth day it was under heavy 
fire, and on the retreat it assisted in protecting the rear 
of Lee's broken army. 



30 The Confederate Reveille. 

At Spottsylvania Court-house the regiment killed 
more Yankees than it had men, and the Ironsides Brig- 
ade, of which General Anderson said the Fourth Regi- 
ment was " ' the keystone, ' ' was thanked by General 
Lee in person, he saying that they " deserved the 
thanks of the coautry " ; that they ''had saved his 
army. ' ' 

On July 11, 1861^, the flag of the Fourth Regiment 
floated in sight of the dome of the Capitol at Washing- 
ton. At Fisher's Hill the regiment remained intact, 
and assisted in holding the enemy in check until night. 
At Cedar Creek Ramseur's division, to which the Fourth 
Regiment belonged, covered the rear of Early's routed 
forces. From Petersburg to Appomattox the Fourth 
was daily engaged, and was part of the rear guard of 
the remnant of Lee's grand army. At Sailor's Creek 
they displayed their invincible courage, and participated 
in the gallant charge that provoked from the grand old 
commander, "God bless North Carolina — she is first and 
last in every charge. 

On the morning of the surrender it assisted in driving 
back the Yankee horde nearly a mile, capturing prison- 
ers and artillery. It was part of the command that fired 
the last volley at Appomattox. These gallant troops 
fought ragged and foot-sore without pay ; they flinched 
not in battle and half starved, only murmered very 
rarely for " bread." 

No oath-bound McGregor ever followed Clan Alpine's 
fiery cross with more devoted zeal than did these gallant 
Southrons the starry cross of the Southern Republic. 



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31 



Geoeral L. O'B. BRANCH. 



Lawrence O'Brien Branch returned from Congress 
March ith, 1861, and actively advocated the immediate 
secession of his native State. In April of that 3^ear vol- 
unteers having been called for, he joined the Ealeigh 
Eifles as a private. On the :20th of May, at the earnest 




General L. O'B. Branch. 

request of Governor Ellis, he accepted the office of Quar- 
termaster General of North Carolina, but, being anxious 
to enter into active service in the field, he resigned the 
position, and in September, 1861, was commissioned Col- 
onel of the Thirty-third Eegiment North Carolina troops. 
This he organized in a thoroughly efficient manner, and 
it went into the war one of the most admirable regi- 
ments in officers and men that our good old State sent 



* Extracts from Address of Maj. Jno. D. Hughes. 



32 The Confederate Reveille. 

to the field ; it did most gallant service, and furnished 
two general officers to the Confederacy — Branch, who 
was made a Brigadier on the ITth of January, 1862, and 
the gallant Hoke, who rapidly rose, by his splendid 
qualities as a soldier, to the position of Major General. 
Soon after his appointment General Branch took com- 
mand at New Berne, and on the 4th of March, 18()2, 
bravely led his raw and comparatively undisciplined 
troops, consisting of volunteers and militia, against the 
trained troops of General Burnside. He made a gallant 
stand against overwhelming odds, and, after a desperate 
fight, succeeded in bringing ofi" his command with but 
slight loss. He retired to Kinston, from whence he was 
ordered to Virginia, and directed to join the forces of 
Stonewall Jackson. His brigade, consisting of the Sev- 
enth, Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-third and 
Thirty-seventh North Carolina Regiments, formed a 
splendid body of men, who were destined to play a con- 
spicuous part in the bloody drama so soon to be enacted 
in Virginia. They went to Gordonsvilie by rail, and 
thence started on foot to join Jackson; but after a long- 
march w^ere ordered back to Hanover Court-house, with- 
out having reached him. Near the latter place they 
fought, under General Branch, the celebrated battle of 
Slash church, as it was named at the time, against an 
enormous host of the enemy, consisting of the division 
of General Porter and part of the division of General 
Sedge wick. He succeeded with his brave little band 
in holding them in check during the entire day, and 
safely brought his forces from the field at night, for all 
of which he was specially commended by General Lee in 
a letter, of which the following is a copy: 



The Confederate Reveille. 33 

Headquarters Army Northern Virginia. 
Brig. -Gen. L. O'B. Branch, Commanding. 

General : The report of your recent engagement with 
the enemy at Slash church (Hanover Court-house), has 
been forwarded by Maj. -General Hill. I take great pleas- 
ure in expressing my approval of the manner in which 
you have discharged the duties of the position in which 
you were placed and of the gallant manner your troops 
opposed a very superior force of the enemy. I beg you 
will signify to the troops of your command which were 
engaged on that occasion my hearty approval of their 
conduct, and hope that on future occasions they will 
evince a like heroism and patriotic devotion. 
I am, very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

R. E. Lee, 

General. 

Then rapidly followed the brilliant battles of the seven 
days in front of Richmond, in each of which he displayed 
the utmost coolness, courage and judgment, handling 
his troops in a manner to- command the admiration of 
all beholders; his bravery in fact was so conspicuous 
that he became a hero in the eyes of his troops, and 
they, in their enthusiasm and devotion, regarded him 
as being in his soldierly qualities — 

" As constant as the Northern Star 
Of whose true, fixed and resting quality 
There is no fellow in the firmament." 

During these engagements Captain Canady, A. A. G. 
of his staff, was taken sick and died; Major W. A. 
Blount, A. D. C, was wounded; Captain Hawks, engi- 
neer officer, was disabled, and General Branch was con- 
sequently alone in the field with Captain James A. 



34 The Confederate Reveille. 

Bryan, his very efficient Ordnance officer, to accompany 
him, his Quartermaster and Commissary being under 
orders with their trains. His brigade in the brief space 
of six months was engaged in mora than fifteen pitched 
battles, besides skirmishes. The intense activity of this 
campaign is almost unprecedented, and can be better 
appreciated, when I say to you that, during that time 
General Branch averaged one battle for every twelve 
days. 

Sharpsburg was a fatal field for him. He had with 
his command just swept the enemy before him, and 
driven them m such confusion and dismay that all firing 
had ceased iu his immediate front, when Generals Gregg 
and Archer directed his attention to a V-shaped column 
of the enemy that was advancing against the troops on 
his left. He stepped forward and formed with these 
Generals a little group, which evidently attracted the 
attention of some sharp-shooters of the other side, for 
just as he was raising his field glasses to his eyes, a sin- 
gle shot was fired, and a bullet was sent to do its deadly 
work, which, striking him in the right cheek, passed out 
back of his left ear; he fell dying into the arms of the 
faithful and gallant Major Engelhard of his staff, than 
whom North Carolina sent no truer man to the front. 



The Confederate Reveille. 35 



BRANCH flRTILLERY. 



To the Confederate cause Beaufort County was no 
small contributor. There is scarcely a fireside around 
which some hallowed memory does not linger, so nobly 
did her people respond. 

The companies and regiments formed within her bor- 
der, the brave and gallant bearing of her officers, the 
daring intrepidity of her private soldiers are conspicu- 
ous in the history of our country; no less conspicuous 
upon the battlefield were her contributions to other 
commands. 

"In January, lSf>2, by the indomitable energy of 
Alexander C. Latham, than whom there was no more 
brave, chivalrous, patriotic soldier enlisted in the cause, 
a company was formed in our sister town of New Berne. 
It was commissioned by Governor John D. Ellis under 
the name of '' Branch Artillery,'' in honor of the 
lamented GenerpJ L. O'B. Branch; it was originally a 
six-gun battery of light field pieces, and was officered 
by Alexander C. Latham, Captain; John E. Potts, First 
Lieutenant; Samuel \V. Latham, Junior First Lieuten- 
ant; Wheeler, Second Lieutenant. This battery, com- 
posed of men fresh from peaceful pursuits, was moved 
down to line of defense, six miles below the city of New 
Berne, in which position it did not remain many hours, 
before the advancing column of the enemy showed itself, 
and in a moment tne Branch Artillery received its bap- 
tism of fire, at the hands of General Burnside. Gallantly 
did it bear itself in this its first ordeal, and suffered ter- 



36 The Confederate Reveille. 

rible loss in both men and horses; and when, after six 
hours of superhuman effort, having repulsed time and 
again the enemy, the hues under heavy pressure gave 
way, to the right and left. A httle army of 4,000, not 
ten of whom, officers and men, had ever been in battle 
before, having contended with a fleet of gunboats and 
IB, 000 of the best troops in the Federal service, with a 
reserve force of T,ooo. For raw troops, they behaved 
with a gallantry truly grand, that merited and received 
the plaudits of their commanding officers. After re- 
treating from New Berne and halting for awhile at Kin- 
ston to recruit its ranks, Lieutenant John M. Perry, 
with thirty-five brave followers, sons of Carteret County, 
were transferred to this battery ; here, also, Henry G. 
Flanner joined it, with the rank of Junior Second Lieu- 
tenant. Its equipment of guns was received, and orders 
to report in Richmond for duty. This battery was iden- 
tified with the Army of Northern Virginia from that 
date, sharing in all its varying fortunes. Upon the ar- 
rival in Richmond the battery was immediately ordered 
to join the forces of General Jackson, then operating in 
the valley, which point, however, it did not reach, as near 
Hanover Court-house it encountered the enemy, !>,0()0 
strong, under General Fitz John Porter and part of the 
division of Sedgwick; and here this battery alone, with 
Branch's immortelles, -2,500 strong, held this compara- 
tively colossal force at bay for twelve long hours. The 
battery here w-as almost decimated, and for its gallant 
and heroic endurance received the ' ' well done ' ' of its 
Brigade Comaiander, General Branch, (^omphmented 
by General Joseph E. Johnston, then commanding, in a 



The Confederate Reveille. 37 

special order. The battery after this engagement, had 
again to be recruited by an addition of one hundred 
conscripts, chiefly from counties of Wake and Johnston, 
good and true men. The batte]y was now joined to the 
corps of Stonewall Jackson around Richmond, and 
thenceforward until the death of Jackson, the history 
of the daring dash of this world-renowned corps is but 
the repetition of the history of this battery. At the first 
battle of Fredericksburg the battery had the opportu- 
nity of again encountering the fire of Burnside, at whose 
hands they had suffered so severely in their first engorge- 
ment below New Berne. On this occasion the battery 
was posted at night in a margin of woods near Hamil- 
ton's crossing, and as the day dawned it revealed the 
enemy on a smooth open plateau ; as the sun rose the 
furious engagement commenced. Than, high above the 
din of battle and the requiem shrieks, of shot and shell, 
rose the reverberations of its guns, which floated over 
the Rappahanock and thundered in the ear of Burnside, 
shielded from harm on Stafford heights. From morn- 
ing till night the carnival of death went on, and when 
night closed the scene, the stars looked down upon a 
once mighty host crushed, humbled and broken, and on 
a vain glorious commander, shorn of his expectant glory 
and renown, routed horse, foot and dragoon. 

In the December following this campaign, Lieuten- 
ant John R. Potts, who had been constantly at his post, 
conspicuous for his gallant bearing, under most trying 
circumstances, was commissioned its Captain ; upon bet- 
ter shoulders the mantle of command could not have 
fallen, brave, courageous, commanding respect, inspir- 
4 



38 The Confederate Reveille. 

ing that confidence which made him a leader worthy to 
be followed. 

There was scarcely a day that the thunder of this 
battery w^as not echoed over the hills of Virginia; and 
under the leadership of its gallant young commander 
the record of its services comprise much of that of the 
splendid Army of Northern Virginia. Indeed the old 
adage, ' ' Death strikes at a shining mark, ' ' was verified 
in the fall of this gallant young son of Beaufort, taken 
in the A^gor of youth, around him clustering all the no- 
ble virtues that adorn the perfect man. He sealed his 
devotion to his country bn the fated battle field of 
Spottsylvania. If devotion, industry, talent and gallan- 
try are the highest attributes of a soldier, then he is en- 
titled to the distinction their possession confers. 

After the death of Captain Potts, May 8, 1864, the 
command devolved on (yaptain Henry G. Flanner, who 
handled it with the same skill and intrepidity that had 
ever characterized its conduci through four years of ac- 
tive service. 

The banner of the caase went down overpowered, but 
not dishonored, after waiving in triumph over more 
than one hundred battle fields .before it was called the 
conquered banner and furled forever at Appomattox, 
leaving as a rich heritage to its followers a spotless 
record of untarnished devotion to principle. 

"Reveille," 



The C 071 federate Reveille. 39 

MOW THE YANKEES FOUND TAR RIVER. 



When the Confederates were preparing to evacuate 
Washington, N. C, in March, 1862, they sent men to 
destroy all cotton and naval stores that would be likely 
to fall into the possession of the enemy. At Taft's Store 
they found about one thousand barrels of tar and tur- 
pentine; and as they could not burn it without burning- 
several houses, they rolled the barrels to the river bank, 
cut the hoops in two and dumped them in the river. In 
June of the same year I was going up Tar River on the 
steamer Governor Morehead, at Taft's Store we met the 
steamer. Colonel Hill, with two flat boats carrying four 
hundred Yankee soldiers from the prison at Salisbury, 
N. C, to Washington, N. C, to be exchanged. The Col- 
onel Hill had tied up at dark, and the prisoners, wishing 
to take a bath, the officer in command had stationed 
guards with torches on both banks of the river, and gave 
them permission to wade in, which they did, and stirred 
up the tar and turpentine from the bottom of the river, 
and they got well smeared with it. When we came up 
to them each man had his rations of meat in one hand 
and a small piece of stick in the other, greasing and 
scraping for dear life. We shut off steam, when I hailed 
them Avith, "Hello boys, what's the matter.'- The reply 
was, " We have heard of Tar River all our lives, but 
never believed that there was any such place, but be 
damned if we haven't found it, the whole bed of it is 
tar." J. D. Myers. 



40 The Confederate Reveille. 



NORTH CAROLINA TO THE RESCUE. 

I have selected as my subject an event that happened 
during the night after the second day at Gettysburg. 
In the many descriptions I have read of that famous 
tattle, I have not seen any account of it, but all the old 
veterans of Ramseur's Brigade now surviving, who were 
present and participated, will never forget it while life 
lasts. 

Our division, Rodes', of Ewell's Corps, arrived on the 
field of Gettysburg July 1st, and immediately went into 
acton. If I mistake not, it was the evening of the 1st, 
as we had marched from Carlisle or near there that 
morning. Two corps of Federal troops had reached 
Gettysburg sometime before our arrival and had formed 
ready for action; the divisions of Ewell's corps imme- 
diately attacked and drove them from the. field. The 
result of the first day's battle was a decided Confederate 
victory — the Federals were driven from the field, their 
artillery captured and about fi^e thousand made pris- 
oners. The sharp-shooters of Ramseur's Brigade pur- 
sued and fought the retreating Federals through the 
streets of Gettysburg. Ramseur's Brigade was the first, 
or among the first, to enter the town ; we expected to con- 
tinue our advance and occupy the heights beyond, and 
with the remnants of the two Federal corps flying be- 
fore us, routed and disorganized, this could have been 
easily accomplished ; but for reasons yet unexplained, 
we were halted in the suburbs of the town and during 
the night formtd in line of battle, along the Emmets- 



The Confederate Reveille. 41 

burg road, to the right of the town, in front of Ceme- 
tery Hill, which at that moment was virtualy ours, if 
we would only take possession, but in a few hours more 
lost to us forever. 

The morning of the 2d of July dawned upon us, and 
there was presented to our view, upon the formidable 
heights in our front, frowning with artillery and heavy 
masses of infantry, which had arrived during the night. 

Ramseur's Brigade was not engaged in regular battle 
during the day, though the sharp-shooters were pelting 
away in our front, and late in the afternoon the skir- 
mishing became very severe. There was heavy firing 
to our right in front of A. P. Hill and Longstreet. Just 
at night we received orders to be ready to move at a mo- 
mant's notice, and were informed that we v/ere to storm 
and take Cemetery Hill, at the point of the bayonet ; to 
meet the enemy in the broad light of day requires nerve, 
long preparation and the rigid restraints of military dis- 
cipline, to make of the soldier, the company, the regi- 
ment, the brigade, the division, the corps and the army 
an automatic machine, so that the movements of the 
one can be readily made to conform to the evolutions of 
the whole with little or no friction. Along with the 
ord3r came the announcement that when we had driven 
back the enemy and had gained the crest of the hill 
amid the darkness and confusion in order that we might 
recognize friend from foe, we were to cry out " North 
Carolina to the rescue." 

The same ivas attempted, and at the command to rise 
and forward, every man sprang to his feet and moved 
cautiously and silently up the slope of the hill, deter- 



42 The Confederate Reveille. 

mined to conquer or die. I distinctly remember my own 
feelings on this occasion, bat language fails me to intel- 
ligently describe them. We advanced so near the crest 
of the hill that we could hear the Federal officers of ar- 
tillery and infantry cautioning their men to reserve their 
fire, but at this supreme moment we received orders to 
retire and did so, as cautiously and as silently as we had 
advanced. 

We had performed our duty ; some one had failed to 
do theirs; history will yet tell who they were. It is idle 
now to conjecture what might have been the result had 
the move been carried out in all its details. 

Edward Tripp, 
Late 1st Lieut. Co. E., m N. C. S. T. 



Major-General WILLIAM DORSEY PENDER. 



In perusing the sketch, by Judge Walter A. Mont- 
gomery, of General William Dorsey Pender, we learn 
many interesting facts concerning that great soldier. He 
was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, on the 
6th of February, 1834, and entered the United States 
Military Academy, at West Point, on the 1st of July, 
1850. Frcrsi that institution he graduated in 1854, and 
was at once assigned to the First Artillery as Brevet 
Second Lieutenant. He was then commissioned Second 
Lieutenant in the Second Artillery, and, in 1855, was 
transferred to the First Regiment of Dragoons, as First 
Lieutenant. He participated in numerous desperate 

* Extract from Peele's "'Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians." 




Major-General W. D. Pender. 



44 The Confederate Reveille. 

encounters with the Indians, always displaying the 
courage and military g3nius which narked him in after 
life. On the 8th of November, 1860, he was made Adju- 
tant of the First Dragoons, with headquarters at San 
Francisco. On January 31, 1861, he was detached and 
ordered to Carlisle, Peunsylvania, on recruiting service. 
In February he was in Washington, and observed with 
interest tlie great crisis which was then pending. Seeing 
that war was inevitable, he resigned his commission on 
the 21st of March, and offered his services to the Con- 
federate Congress, by which he was commissioned Cap- 
tain of Artillery, and afterwards placed in charge of the 
recruiting depot at Baltimore. After some service in 
the camps of instruction around Raleigh, he was elected 
Colonel of the Third North Carolina Regiment on May 
16. At this time he was twenty-seven years old. lu 
August following he was appointed to command the 
Sixth North Carolina, which was formerly under Colo- 
nel Fisher. Having personally witnessed his splendid 
bearing on the field of battle, President Davis advanced 
him to the grade of Brigadier General, in June, 1862. 
It would far exceed the limits of this brief notice to give 
the many desperate battles in which General Pender 
participated. 

Shortly after the battle of Chancellorsville, General 
Lee wrote to President Davis: "If A. P. Hill is pro- 
moted, a Major General will be wanted for his division. 
Pender is an excellent officer, attentive, industrious and 
brave; has been conspicuous m every battle, and, I be- 
lieve, wounded in almost all of them.'' 

In compliance with this recommendation, he was, on 



The Confederate Reveille. 45 

the 27th of May, 1863, made Major General, and was 
the youngest officer in the Confederate army who held 
that rank, heing only twenty-nine years old. At the 
battle of Gettysburg he received a wound in the leg 
from a fragment of shell, and amputation afterwards 
became necessary. This operation was performed on the 
18th of July, and he survived it only a few hours. To 
his brother he said: "Tell my v/ife that I do not fear to 
die. I can confidently resign my soul to God, trusting 
in the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ. My only 
regret is to leave her and our children. I have always 
tried to do my duty in every sphere of life to which 
Providence has assigned me. ' ' 

In his second report of the battle of Gettysburg, Gen- 
eral Lee said: "The loss of Major General W. D. Pender 
is severely felt by the army and the country. He served 
with this army from the beginning of the war, and took 
a distinguished part in all its engagements. Wounded 
on several occasions, he never left his command in ac- 
tion until he received the injury that resulted in his 
death. His promise and usefulness as an officer were 
only equalled by the purity and excellence of his private 
life." 

General Wharton, of Virginia, declared in 1893, that 
during the war he had heard Lee express the belief, in 
the presence of many officers, that the Battle of Gettys- 
burg would have been won by the Confederate Army if 
Pender had not been disabled. 

On the 3d of March, 1859, General Pender was united 
in marriage with Miss Frances Shepperd, a daughter of 
the Honorable Augustine H. Shepperd, of Forsyth 



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County, North Carolina, and left three sons, Samuel 
Turner, Wilham Dorsey, Jr., and Stephen Lee.*^;;^;;^ 

In religion,, General Pender was a member of the 
Protestant Episcopal church, having been baptized at 
Manassas in August, 1862. Some time afterwards he 
rode quietly into Richmond, by night, and received the 
right of confirmation fi'om Bishop Johns. ^' 

Such is a brief outline of Judge Montgomery's sketch, 
which preserves for coming generations the memory of 
this noble type of soldier and gentleman. 



Brig. -General JAMES JOHNSTON PETTIGREW.^^ 



The family of Johnston Pettigrew was one of the 
oldest, wealthiest and most influential of Eastern Caro- 
lina. His grandfather. Rev. Charles Pettigrew, was 
the first Bishop-elect of the Diocese of North Carolina. 
He was born upon his father's estate, Bonarva, Lake 
Scuppernong, Tyrrell County, North Carolina, on July 
4th, 1828. 

He graduated with the first distinction at the Univer- 
sity of North Carolina in 1847. A few months after 
graduation, at the request of Commodore Maury, Prin- 
cipal of the Naval Observatory at Washington, he ac- 
cepted a professorship in that institution. Having re- 
mained there about eight months, he resigned and went 
to Charleston, South Carolina, and became a student of 
law, in the office of his distinguished relative, Hon. 
James L. Pettigrew, obtaining a license in 1849. 

♦Extracts from Peele's "Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians." 
Essay of Capt. W. R. Bond. 



The Confederate Reveille. 47' 

In 1850 he went to Europe to study the civil law in 
the German Universities. There also he became thor- 
oughly acquainted with the German. French, Italian 
and Spanish languages. He became so well acquainted 
with Arabic as to i^ead and appreciate it ; also with He- 
brew. He then traveled over the various countries of the 
continent, also England, Scotland and Ireland. 

In 1852 he became Secretary of Legation to the 
United States Minister at the Court of Madrid. In the 
winter of 1861 he had printed in Charleston, for private 
circulation, an octavo volume of four hundred and 
thirty pages, entitled, " Spain and the Spaniards, '' which 
has been very much admired by every one who has read 
it; for its learning, its research and the elegance of its 
style. Having remained in Madrid only a few months, 
he returned to Charleston and entered upon the practice 
of law with Mr. James L. Pettigrew. 

In December, 1856, and December, 1857, he was cho- 
sen a member of the Legislature from the city of Charles- 
ton. Again, in 1859 he went to Europe with the inten- 
tion of taking part in the war then in progress between 
Sardinia and Austria. His application to Count Cavour 
for a position in the Sardinian army, under General 
Marmora, was favorably received. His rank would have 
been at least that of Colonel; butMn consequence of the 
results of the battle of Solferino, which took place just 
before his arrival in Sardinia, the war was closed, and 
he was thereby prevented from experiencing active mil- 
itary service and learning its lessons 1 

In 1859, he became Colonel of a rifle regiment that 
was formed and that acted a conspicuous part around 



48 The Confederate Reveille. 

Charleston in the winter of 1860 — 1861. With his regi- 
ment he took possession of Castle Pinckney, and was 
afterwards transferred to Morris Island, where he erected 
formidable batteries. He held himself in readiness to 
storm Fort Sumter in case it had not been surrendered 
after bombardment. 

In the spring of 1861 his regiment, growing impatient 
because it could not just then be incorporated in the 
Confederate Army, disbanded; Colonel Pettigrew then 
joined Hampton's Legion as a private; and went with 
that body to Virginia, where active service was to be 
met with. A few days afterwards, without any solici- 
tation on his part, he was elected Colonel of the Twenty- 
second North Carolina Troops. While at Evansport, he 
was offered promotion, but declined it, upon the ground 
that it would separate him from his regiment. Late 
in the spring of 1862 an arrangement was made by which 
his regiment was embraced in the brigade. He then 
accepted the commission. He and his brigade were with 
General Johnston at Yorktown, and in the retreat up 
the peninsular. He was with his brigade in the san- 
guinary battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks, where he 
was severely wounded, and left insensible upon the 
field, and captured. He was in prison only about two 
months ; and on being exchanged, he returned to find 
that in his absence his beloved brigade had been given 
to General Pender. A new brigade was thou made up 
for him. 

In the autumn of 1862, he was ordered with his brig- 
ade to Eastern North Carolina, where he was engaged 
in several affairs which, though brilliant, have been 



The Confederate Reveille. 49 

overshadowed by the greater battles of the war. In 
May, 1863, his brigade was ordered to Virginia, and 
ever after formed a part of the Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia. While commanding Heth's Division, in " Long- 
street's assault," on the third day's fight at Gettysburg 
(which some Virginia historians, with amusing vanity, 
call ' ' Pickett's charge ), ' ' his command bore the brunt of 
the enemy's resistance. Five of the North Carolina regi 
ments following Pettigrew had more men killed than 
Pickett's fifteen. His own brigade (four regiments at 
Gettysburg^ carried into " Longstreet's assault," about 
fourteen hundred and eighty men ; its loss in killed and 
wounded was four hundred and forty-five. This same 
regiment ( Pettigrew 's) in command, held the pivot of 
the first day's fight, but at a fearful cost. Out of the 
twenty-two hundred engaged, it lost six hundred and 
sixty killed and wounded. 

In this brigade was the famous Twenty-sixth North 
Carolina Regiment, under Harry K. Burgwyn, which 
lost so heavily in the first day'-s fight. Its gallant Colo- 
nel, Burgwyn, was among the last of fifteen color- 
bearers, who fell with the flag in his hands. 

In the last day's fight Pettigrew was engaged with 
the famous ''Iron" Brigade, in which was the Twenty- 
fourth Michigan facing the Twenty-fifth North Carolina 
in the open field and woods for an hour and a half, 
until, finally, and before the Twenty-fourth broke, they 
were within one hundred feet, at which range they con- 
tinued for twenty or thirty minutes. Captain J. J. 
Davis (afterwards Associate Justice of our Supreme 
Court) was an eye-witness and participant. He says : 



I 



50 The Confederate Reveille. 

" The advantage was everywhere with the Confederate 
side, and I aver that this was greatly if not chiefly due 
to Pettigrew's Brigade and its brave commander. The 
bravery of that knightly soldier and elegant scholar, as 
he galloped along the line in the hottest of the fight, 
cheering on his men, cannot be effaced from my 
memory.'' 

After this frightful day's work he was chosen to lead 
Heth's Division in '' Longstreet's assault." And, 
though wounded in this assault by a grape shot through 
his hand, he it was who, on the retreat of liOe's army, 
was chosen to command the rear guard, which consisted 
of his own shattered brigade and another. This was the 
duty that Napoleon assigned to Marshal Ney, " the 
bravest of the brave.'' And it was in discharge of this 
duty that Pettigrew lost his life. At Falling Waters, 
on the lith, he was wounded. He died on the 17th, 
and his remains were taken to his old home, Bonarva, 
and there he lies buried near the beautiful lake, whose 
sandy shores his youthful feet were wont to tread. 
May he rest in peace. 



The Confederate Reveille. 51 

Lieutenant-General D. h\. h|ILL. 



This most distinguished soldier was the hero of many 
hard- fought battles, and a simple record of his military 
career could with difhculty be embraced in a magazine 
of this kind so we insert a brief statement of his com- 
missions and commands: He was born in 1821, gradu- 
ated at the United States Military Academy in 181:2, and 
was commissioned Lieutenant of Artillery. In 1847 he 
was breveted Major for gallantry in the battles of Con- 
treras, Churubusco and the storming of Chapultepec in 
the Mexican War. He resigned the army in 1849 — was 
Professor of Mathematics in Washington College, Lex- 
ington, Va., and later held the same position at David- 
son College, N. C, which he resigned to become Super- 
intendent of the Military Institute at Charlotte, N. C. 
He entered the Confederate Army in command of the 
First Eegiment North Carolina Volunteers, and fought 
the battle of Big Bethel. General Hill was in active 
service throughout the war and was engaged in many 
pitched battles, in all of which he displayed great mili- 
tary ability, an insensibility to fear, and an absolute in- 
difference to danger. His commissions bore dates as 
follows : Colonel First Regiment North (Carolina Volun- 
teers May 10th, 1861 ; Brigadier-General P. A. C. S., 
July loth, 1861 ; Major-General P. A. C. S., March 26th, 
1862; Lieutenant-General P. A. C. S., July 11th, 1863. 



52 The Confederate Reveille. 

COMMANDS. 

He organized and was in command of Camp of In- 
struction at Ealeigh, N. C, May 1, 1861; Colonel First 
Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, May 10, 1861; 
Brigade composed of 13th, 17th, 18th and !^lst Missis- 
sippi Eegiments A. N. V. ; commanding department of 

North Carohna , 1861; August, 1862, to July, 

1863, in command of department of Southern Virginia 
and North Carolina ; division composed of the brigades 
of Rains, Rodes, Garland and G. B. Anderson, Jack- 
son's Corps, A. N. v., 1862-'63; also brigades of Doles, 
Iverson, Rodes and Colquitt in Jackson's Corps, A. N. 
V. ; also brigades of Deas, Manigault, Sharp and Brantly, 
Army of Tennessee. In October, 1863, commanding 
corps in Army of Tennessee composed of divisions of 
Cleburne and Breckrinridge. At battle of Bentonsville, 
N. C, March 19th, 1865, in command of S. D. Lee's 
Corps. After the war he edited ' ' The Land we Love ' ' 
and "The Southern Home," at Charlotte, N. C. He 
was later President of the LTniversity of Arkansas. He 
died at Charlotte, N. C, September 25, 1889. 



ffiivcuac of the Dead* 



'' 2be claims of war its richest spoil 
dbe asbes of ber dead/' 



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Colonel D. M. Carter. 



Bivouac of the Dead. 55 



Col. DAVID MILLEE CARTER. 



Colonel David Miller Carter entered the Confederate 
service in May, 1861, as Captain of Company E., Fourth 
Regiment of North Carolina State Troops. He served 
in the field until the battle of Seven Pines, May, 1862, 
when he was disabled for further active service by a 
painful v/ound in the shoulder, which kept him undei- 
medical treatment at Richmond for two months. He 
was commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel of his regi- 
ment, but after a short service was appointed Judge of 
the Military Court, with rank of Colonel, Army North- 
ern Virginia, and served in that capacity until the close 
of the war. He has left a proud record of honorable, 
faithful and efficient service during the struggle, and of 
devotion to the best interests of his country, after its 
close. 



Judge WILLIAM B. RODMAN. 



William Blount Rodman was born in W^ashington, N. 
C, June 29, 1817. His ancestors on both sides for gen- 
erations were distinguished for learning, patriotism and 
influence in councils of State, occupying an eminently 
honorable place in Colonial and Revolutionary history. 
He early gave promise of inheriting in a remarkable de- 
gree those qualities of mind that form the intellectual 
giant, and those graces of spirit that make the true and 
tender friend beloved by his fellow man. 



56 The Confederate Reveille. 

He entered the University of Chapel Hill in 1832, at 
the age of fifteen, and graduated in 1836 with first hon- 
ors, at the age of nineteen. While at the University he 
was foremost in all his studies, and was recognized as 
easily first in belles lettres attainments, and in after life 
kept up his elegant literary culture, through all the ex- 
actions of a rigid profession, in which he rose to the 
highest rank at the Bar and on the Bench. He was a 
fine Latin and Greek scholar; also reading with ease 
both French and German, and was as well a keen stu- 
dent of the physical sciences, his inquisitive mind rang- 
ing through all the realms of ancient and modern liter- 
ature. After leaving college, he studied law under 
Judge William Gaston, of New Berne, No]'th Carolina, 
and was licensed to practice in 1838. 

He settled in his native town of Washington, where 
his talents and accomplishments enabled him soon to 
secure a large and lucrative practice; in those days the 
Bar of Washington was composed of men whose lives 
and careers will ever be remembered, as shedding a lus- 
tre and brilliancy unrivalled in this or any section of the 
State. Donnell, Shaw, Carter, \A arren, Gilliam, Spar- 
row and Rodman, their names and memories linger with 
us, and right worthy were they to wear the laurel. 

His legal ability being early recognized, he was ap- 
pointed to serve with Hon. B. F. Moore and Asa Biggs 
to revise the North Carolina Code. He was a Brecken- 
ridge elector in the campaign of 1860, and on the elec- 
tion of Lincoln strongly advocated the doctrine of State's 
Eights and Secession. His ideas on this subject are best 
expressed in an opinion delivered by him some years 




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58 The Confederate Reveille. 

after, while Supreme Court Judge, in which he uses this 
language: " The States must have jurisdiction to try 
offenses against their own laws or they cease to be States. 
It is a power necessarily inherent in a State. It alone 
makes a State. ' ' 

The "News and Observer'' of July lith, 1877, re- 
ferring to the opinion, says: '' He tells the whole story 
in these brief sentences, that deserve to be written in 
letters of gold.- ' 

True to his convictions, when the State seceded, he 
raised a company of heavy artillery, of Avhich he was 
O'aptain; John G. Leggett, First Lieutenant; John G. 
Blount, Junior First Lieutenant; Ashley Congleton, 
Second Lieutenant; James B. Hancock, Orderly Ser- 
geant. This company was first stationed on the north 
side of Pamlico River, and afterwards participated in 
the battle of New Berne, retiring with the army to Kin- 
ston, at which place Captain Rodman was appointed 
Brigade Quartermaster to Branch's Brigade, with the 
rank of Major, and with the Brigade went to the Army 
of Northern Virginia. 

Later, he was appointed by President Davis Presiding 
Judge of a Military Court, with rank of Colonel, at- 
tached to the Army of Northern Virginia, and had juris- 
diction to try all military offenses committed by persons 
below the rank of Brigadier General. His associates 
were Colonel John M. Patton, who had commanded the 
First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers ; General Bradley 
T. Johnson and later Colonel Boteler of Harper's Ferry. 

Upon the evacuation of Richmond, he went with the 
Army of Northern Virginia to Pamplin's Station; and 



Bivouac of the Dead. 59 

learning that General Lee would surrender, he left that 
army and made his way on foot to Greensboro, reaching 
that point in time to surrender with General Joseph E. 
Johnston. 

In the fall of 1865 he returned to his home in Wash- 
ington, resuming the practice of his profession, and 
though having suffered immense private losses from 
the reverses of war, he bravely determined to make 
" human endurance equal to human suffering." 

Realizing the great importance of preserving the purity 
and conservatism of the laws of his native State, and 
seeing the great dangers threatening our jurisprudence 
from the party then in such absolute control of the State 
and its instit^jtions, with no earthly hope of change in 
the near future ; he braved the disapproval of some by 
permitting himself to be sent to the Convention of 1868 
by the Eepublican party. He did what he thought best, 
and in this Convention he was distinguished for his con- 
servative views, and his influence contributed to the 
defeat of at least some of the extreme and unwise pro- 
visions sought to be engrafted upon our fundamental 
law. Judge Rodman was appointed by the Convention 
as one of three Commissioners to prepare and report to 
the Legislature a code of the laws of North Carolina; 
these were principally made by him, some of which 
were adopted and now form a part of the present Code. 

He was elected Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court in 1868, and served until the expiration of his 
term, in 1878. This is conceded to have been a strong 
Court, and second to none on the Bench — Judge Rod- 
man was considered one of its ablest members. It may 



60 The Confederate Reveille. 

be said without fear of contradictioQ that the opinions 
of Judge Kodman were regarded by the profession as 
exceptionally able, and a perusal of the reports will 
illustrate the great services he rendered at this impor- 
tant period in the transition history of the State. Never 
a politician nor ambitious of political honors, he loved 
the law, and has contributed no little tovsrards preserv- 
ing the fount of justice and equity pure and unsullied. 
He was a great Judge, and has left his mark upon the 
jurisprudence of his time. He was above and beyond 
the ordinary mould of men, the loftiness and elevation 
of his character were intuitively felt and acknowledged 
by all who knew him, but he was so modest and unas- 
suming that he did not claim what were often the just 
rewards of his genius. He ever defended the weak and 
unprotected, and would not willingly have caused pain 
or suffering to even the least of God's creatures. Plain, 
simple and dignified in all his ways, he had no respect 
for shams or mere observances, but retained the essence 
of truth in all things. He was essentially a great man, 
and bore the impress of a noble life well spent. He died 
March 7th, 1892, in the seventy-sixth year of his life, 
leaving a record of spotless integrity to be prized and 
honored by his family and fellow citizens. 

R. E. T. 



Bivouac of the Dead. 61 



Lieut. -Col. JOSEPH HUBBAED SAUNDERS. 



Joseph Hubbard Saunders, the son of the Rev. Joseph 
Hubbard Saunders, a man of great learning and piety, 
and one of the ablest and most venerated churchmen 
produced by North Carolina, and Laura Lucinda Baker, 
his wife, was born October 23d, 1839, and graduated at 
the University of North Carolina June, 1860. 

In April, 1861, he volunteered in the Orange Light 
Infantry. In December, 1861, he was appointed by 
Governor Clark a Lieutenant in Company A., Thirty- 
third Regiment, commanded by Colonel, afterwards 
General L. O'B. Branch. 

Lieutenant Saunders first saw service at New Berne; 
his regiment was then ordered to Virginia and assigned 
to the afterwards famous command of General A. P. 
Hill. His promotions were as follows : Captain, 1862 ; 
Major, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel, 1861. 

He was in all the severe engagements of the Army of 
Northern Virginia until the second battle of Manassas, 
in which he was wounded in the right shoulder. 

At Gettysburg, as Major, he commanded the left wing 
of the Thirty-third Regiment in the third days fight, 
and, leading his regiment, fell desperately wounded 
about sixty yards from the celebrated stone wall on 
Cemetery Ridge, a ball entering his left nostril and com- 
ing out of his left ear. After laying exposed twenty- 
four hours, he was captured by the Yankees and carried 
to Chester Hospital, thence to Johnson's Island, and 
was paroled for exchange March, 1865. 



62 Tlie Confederate Reveille. 

His conduct in battle was the admiration of his men ; 
cool, determined, fearless, his valiant bearing enthused 
and inspired his command. Such is the simple recital 
of the principal events in the military career of one of 
the Old North State's most gallant sons. 

The name of Saunders for generations has been an 
honored one in Carolina annals, and the subject of this 
sketch was a cavalier worthy of his lineage. Of virile 
nature, strong mind and lion heart he easil}^ won pro- 
motion among heroes, who vied in deeds of patriotic 
daring and martyr-like sacrifice for their country's 
honor. He was a noble type of the citizen soldier, whose 
peerless patriotism has made Carolina arms immortal, 
and is the crowning glory of American manhood. . The 
same rugged virtues and manly prowess that made him 
a leader on the battle-field gave him prestige and pre- 
eminence in the bivouac of civil life. 

After the war Colonel Saunders devoted himself to 
agricultural pursuits and attained much success in his 
chosen field. He died in Pitt County September 24, 
1885, honored and lamented by the entire State. In 
1870 he married Fannie C. Neal, who, with three sons 
and one daughter, still survive him. 

J. Bryan Grimes. 



Bivouac of the Dead. 63 



Col. GEOEGE BADGER SINGELTAEY. 



Colonel George B. Singeltary was the oldest son of 
the late Eev. John and Eliza Williams Singeltary. Had 
a good education, bat was not a college graduate. Was 
a Captain in the Mexican War, and acted bravely. 
Upon obtaining license to practice in the county courts, he 
settled in Nashville, N. C. About two years thereafter 
he married Miss Cora Manly, daughter of the late Gov- 
ernor Charles Manly, of Ealeigh. He then took a course 
of study at Judge Pearson's law school, and procuring 
Superior Court license, located in Greenville, N. (/., 
where he soon enjoyed a good practice. He had a fine 
appearance — features well proportioned — was a ready 
advocate, and regarded an able criminal lawyer. 

He was Brigadier General of the State Militia, and a 
member of the General Assembly in 1858. He entered 
the service early in 1861. Was commissioned Colonel 
of the Twenty-seventh Eegiment, September 28th, 1861, 
and resigned December 16th, 1861. Was commissioned 
Colonel of the Forty-fourth Eegiment, March 28th, 1862. 
While stationed below New Berne, he acted very heroi- 
cally at Ocracoke, in rescuing the officers and crew of a 
French vessel — proceeding in a violent storm, in an 
open boat, with two pilots, to the vessel's side; and just 
after the last man was taken off, the vessel went to the 
bottom. 

In the spring of 1862 his regiment was assigned to 
duty on our lines, near Washington, N. C. On the 5th 
day of June, 1862, he was apprised that the enemy were 



64 The Confederate Reveille. 

advancing on Greenville, by the"^ Myers' Mill road, the 
bridge on main road, across Tranter s Creek, being de- 
stroyed. With his regiment, he joined Captain Sted- 
man's company, at the Mill bridge, before the enemy 
came in sight. A quick and hot fight ensued. Having 
raw troops, to encourage them, he exposed himself 
to the enemy's fire by sitting on a log on end of bridge, 
and gave orders. He w^as soon shot through the head, 
dying almost instantly. His last words, with the ex- 
piring gasp, were, " Give it to them, boys.'' 

Upon his fall the regiment retreated to Greenville; 
and the enemy, concluding that our troops were mak- 
ing for the Norcott Neck bridge to get in their rear, 
fled in haste back to Washington. 

His brothei , Thomas C. Singeltary, was made Colo- 
nel; T. L. Hargrove, Lieutenant Colonel; and Charles 
M. Stedman, Major of the regiment. His two brothers, 
Thomas C. and Richard W. Singeltary, served as colo- 
nels of regiments throughout the war. 

Colonel Singeltary's death was a great loss to the Con- 
federate service. His dauntless courage, cool and deter- 
mined spirit, his foresight and judgment, and his dash 
and energy, would have rendered him a valuable leader. 

He was buried in the old City Cemetery at Ealeigh, 
and mournful hearts followed his remaius to the tomb. 
He left a lovely and affectionate wife and a little daugh- 
ter, sadly bereft. The daughter, bright, beautiful and 
promising, died v/hen about ten years old, and the 
crushed and saddened mother, not long thereafter, was 
consigned to earth, and rests by the side of husband and 

daughter. 

Pulaski Cowper. 




Major Thomas Sparrow. 



66 The Confederate Reveille. 



Major THOMAS SPAREOAV. 



Major Sparrow was born in New Berne, N. C, October 
2d, 1819, and died January 11th, 1884, in Washington, 
N. C, of which town he had long been an honored and 
prominent citizen. He graduated from Princeton Col- 
lege, New Jersey, as valedictorian of his class in 1842. 
He read law under the distinguished Judge Gaston, and 
was licensed in 1844, then returned to Princeton and 
took his A. M. degree. He practiced law in Washing- 
ton in co-partnership with Hon. Edward Stanly. 

In 1859 he moved his family to Areola, Illinois. But 
when the war clouds gathered he returned to North 
Carolina, and cast his lot with his native State; raised 
a volunteer company of the flower of the young man- 
hood of Beaufort County, and was sent to Portsmouth, 
N. C. While awaiting transportation to Northern Vir- 
ginia, took his compau}^ to assist in the defense of Fort 
Hatteras, and was present at the terrible bombardment, 
and captured ; held in Northern prison for six months. 
Returning he was promoted to rank of Major and as- 
signed to the command of city and river defences at 
Wilmington, N. C. He served from beginning to end 
of the war, and when it closed, being home on sick 
leave, he would not take the oath, but paddled twenty 
miles in a small boat, thus retaining his sword, which 
is now in possession of his son. He was the founder of 
the ex- Confederate Association, organizing the first 
Camp in the State, May 30th, 1883. 

Major Sparrow was prominent all his life. His cul- 




Dr. David T. Tayloe. 



6S The Confederate Reveille. 

ture, his ability and his character made him a leader, 
and as manager in behalf of the House of Representa- 
tives, in the celebrated impeachment trial of Governor 
\V. W. Holden he made himself a name that will live 
with the history of the State. 



Dr. DAVID T. TAYLOE. 



David Thomas Tayloe was born at Washington, N. C, 
February i>l, 1826, and died there March 25, 1884. He 
graduated with distinction at the University of North 
Carolina in 1816; and also graduated from the Medical 
Department of the University of New York in 181:9. 

During the war he was surgeon of the Sixty-first Eeg- 
iment North Carolina Troops, and was distinguished for 
a zealous performance of duty and rendered most valu- 
able and efficient service in the hospital and on the field. 
Tenderly nursing the sick ; cooling the fevered brow of 
the wounded or ministering to the dying wants of a 
fallen comrade, his kind heart and genial presence gave 
comfort to the weak and dispelled the gloom of the gath- 
ering shadows, nobly exemplifying those beautiful lines, 
" The tender are the brave; the loving are the daring." 

After the war he resumed his practice at Washington, 
and attained eminence in his chosen calhng. He was 
wedded to his profession and studied it with the ardor 
of a lover; he viewed it not in a sordid light — as a 
means of gain — but loved it as a noble science to amel- 
iorate the sufferings of his fellow man. To his patients 
he was a faithful physician ; an affectionate friend. 



Bivouac of the Dead. 69 

An ardent Southerner he ever held dear the sacred 
cause of Southern Independence, and was one of the 
chief promoters and first members of the ex- Confederate 
Soldiers's Association of Beaufort County. A man of 
strong character and a leader of thought, he was always 
ready to lend his time, means and influence to the de- 
velopment of his section, and the moral, intellectual and 
industrial upbuilding of his people. His charity was 
broad and his bounty was only circumscribed by his 
means. His virtues endeared him to every one. 

No man ever lived in Washington more esteemed, and 
his death was a grievous, personal affliction to hundreds 
who knew and loved him. 

J. Bryan CIrimes, 



WILLIAM HENEY Baron Von EBEESTEIN. 



AVilliam Henry Baron von Eberstein enlisted in the 
Washington Grays, Seventh North Carolina Volunteers, 
April 22d, 1861. He was appointed Fifth Sergeant, and 
advanced to Orderly Sergeant of the company, then 
known as Company K., Tenth North Carolina 'State 
Troops. Was transferred to Sixty-first Regiment North 
Carolina Troops and promoted to Sergeant Major of the 
regiment. 

Acting as Adjutant he was wounded at Battery Wag- 
ner, South Carolina, and at Petersburg, and Drewry's 
Bluff, Virginia, was recommended for promotion by 
General Beauregard. His family have in their posses- 
sion a letter from General Chngman, stating that he 
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70 The Confederate Reveille. 

was more entitled to wear a General's uniform than 
some who wore the bars. 

He died a few years since, mourned by his friends and 
companions in arms. Contributed. 



DANIEL GOULD FOWLE. 



This distinguished son of North Carohna was born in 
Washington. N. C., March 3, 183L He attended the 
Washington Academy, then he further acquired prepa- 
ration for college at the famous *' Bingham School," 
and graduated with first honors at Princeton College, N. 
J., in 1851. Selecting the law as his profession, his 
studies therein were made under the guidance of Chief 
Justice R. M. Pearson, at Richmond Hill, N. C, and 
resulted in hie being admitted to pi-actice in the Superior 
Courts, December 31st, 1853. 

He opened his office in Raleigh, N. C, May 9th, 1854, 
and rapidly rose in his profession until he stood at the 
head. Was rewarded with the Judgeship and honored 
with the degree of L. L. T>., conferred by three colleges. 

When the v/ar cloud burst upon us, this true-hearted 
son volunteered in the cause of his people, joining the 
' ' Raleigh Rifles, ' ' which company formed a part of the 
Fourteenth Regiment North Carolina State Troops. 

Private D. G. Fowle was elected Lieutenant, and then 
Major. Major Fowle was detailed on special duty, 
which he performed faithfully, until several companies, 
raised by his personal efforts, united with others in 
forming the Thirty-first Regiment North Carolina State 
Troops, and elected Major Fowle Lieutenant Colonel of 



Bivouac of the Dead. 71 

the regiment. In this capacity he served at Fort Hill, 
on the sound, and at Roanoke Island. Here he united 
in the gallant defense of the Island ; and when the small 
garrison was forced to yield to overwhelming numbers, 
Colonel Fowle, by special deputation, accomplished an 
honorable surrender. 

October, 1862, Colonel Fowle was elected to the State 
Legislature, and was the Speaker '' pro tem " over the 
last hours of that Legislature at the surrender of the 
Confederate Army. For a time Colonel Fowle filled the 
high and responsible office of Adjutant General to Gov- 
ernor Vance, with the rank of Major General. 

After the war, he freely drew upon his time, talent 
and energy for the liberation and elevation of his be- 
loved State. His public record, having been so honora- 
ble and excellent, and his personal influence so mag- 
netic, he deservedly became exceedingly popular, and 
he v/as triumphantly elected (governor of North Caro- 
lina in 1888. Most admirably did he adorn this high 
office, until April sth, 1891, when he died suddenly; 
and was followed to the tomb loved, honored and 
mourned by a devoted people. C. M. P. 



Dr. JOHN Mcdonald. 



Dr. John McDonald was born in New Berne, N. C, 
October 11th, 1840. He entered the department of med- 
icine of the University of New York and graduated in 
1861. At the beginning of the civil war he was as- 
signed as assistant surgeon to the Washington Grays, 




Dr. John McDonald. 



Bivouac of the Dead. ^ 78 

organized in the town of Washington, N. C, and was 
stationed at Portsmouth, N. C. Later he was ordered 
to Orange Court-house, ^Mrginia, and thence was trans- 
ferred to Confederate Hospital No. 5, at Wilson, N. C. 
The hospital afforded a fine school for the young sur- 
geon. Dr. McDonald, to quote Dr. Satchwell, the phy- 
sician in chief, was regarded as the ' ' surgical genius of 
the hospital.'' After a laborious and useful service 
there he was transferred to the field, and was assigned 
as surgeon to the Seventh Alabama Cavalry, attached 
to the western army. 

At the end of the war he surrendered and was paroled 
with his regiment. He located in Washington, N. C, 
and began the practice of his profession. Here he mar- 
ried Miss Mary T. Ellison, a daughter of Henry A. Elli- 
soD, Esq., a prominent citizen of Beaufort County. He 
soon acquired a large and lucrative practice, and speedily 
began to reap the rewards of his industry and skill. He 
was regarded as one of the first physicians and surgeons 
of the State, and in all that pertained to the science and 
practice of his profession his interest was intense. 

In the meetings and discussions of the State Medical 
Society he was an active and valuable member. Not- 
withstanding the exactions of a large practice, he found 
time for scientific and literary pursuits. He was also 
active in the discharge of his duties as a citizen, and was 
twice elected mayor of the town of Washington. This 
office he filled to the entire satisfaction of its citizens. 
Before his health became impaired his capacity for 
labor was great. A year or two before his death his 
health gave way under the great strain upon his ener- 



74 The Confederate Reveille. 

gies, and he died on September 9th, 1890. He was a 
man of strong and positive character and had many 
warm friends. His early death was deeply felt by the 
community in which he lived, and by the members of 
his profession throughout the State. 

C. F. Warren. 

Capt. CHARLES KEWELL GALLAGHER. 



Charles Kewell Gallagher was born in Washington, 
N. C, April 24th, 1833, and died at that place February 
11th, 1893. 

In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Washington 
Grays (Captain Thomas Sparrow), which became Com- 
pany G., Tenth Regiment North Carolina State Guard. 
Detailed for special service he was at Fort Hatteras 
when it was attacked by the Federal forces. When the 
fleet opened fire he volunteered and had charge of a gun 
in the fort, with which he did most effective execution 
against the enemy. At the fall of Hatteras he was made 
prisoner and confined in the Rip Raps, and afterwards 
in Fortress Monroe. 

In February, 1863, he was made Captain of Company 
E., Fourth Regiment North Carolina State Troops, and 
was with this regiment in all the battles fought during 
the spring and summer of 1863. Extreme deafness 
obliged him to resign service in the field, and he was 
then engaged in the salt works of the Confederate Gov- 
ernment. 

The Civil War developed few natures of finer mold. 
As Captain of Company E., 4tli Regiment of North Caro- 




Capt. Charles Kewell Gallagher. 



76 The Confederate Reveille. 

lina State Troops, he was a gallant leader among men, 
whose hardy valor, heroic daring and ideal chivalry made 
them the ^keystone of the Army of Northern Viiginia 
in the war for Southern Independence. 

His name is placed on the long roll of our Confeder- 
ate dead, and many an old veteran will feel the tear 
drops welling as he recalls this soldier as one of the 
'' bravest of the brave," who, as volunteers in the Caro- 
lina legions, made the " Ironsides '' of Lee's immortal 
band. As the old veteran recalls the prowess of the 
Southern soldiers he will most tenderly remember the 
deeds of the dead, and as a co-heir to a heritage of valor 
the world has never before known, he will in the holy of 
holies of his heart consecrate a shrine to the memory of 
his brother-in-arms, Charles K. Gallagher. 

J. Bryan Grimes. 



AN ACT OF HEROISM. 



During the bombardment of Fort Hatteras by the 
Yankee fleet, in August, ISfVl, an unexploded shell with 
fuse still burning, fell inside the fort, near a group of 
soldiers, among whom was the lamented Charley Gal- 
lagher, who immediately took up the shell and threw it 
over the parapet, when it exploded. A brave deed by 
a brave man. T. J. Latham. 



Capt. FRED. HARDING. 



At the beginning of the war, in 1861, Fred Harding, 
a highly respected merchant or Washington, N. C, 
helped to raise a company of infantry in Chocowinity, 
in which he served as Second Lieutenant. 



Bivouac of the Dead. 77 

Soon after disbanding this volunteer company (lim- 
ited), at Suffolk, Virginia, and early in the spring of 
1862, impending vigorous preparations for war by the 
Confederate States ; and after a brief rest at home he 
was called to Walker's Cavalry, and in 1863 was made 
Captain, belonging then to the Third North Carolina 
Cavalry, operating in Vnginia under Hampton, amid 
scenes of warfare, familiar only to brave soldiers. I 
knew him well and was constantly near him. He was 
beloved by all his men, and the regimeut as well. 

In all the struggles, on many fields of peril and hard- 
ship, he was present, ever ready to share the fate of the 
most exposed trooper, gently reproving them if neces- 
sary, and especially looking to their comfort. He sur- 
vived the war, and died as he had lived, a Christian, at 
his home in 1892. 

His friend and comrade, J. B. Hill. 



Capt. J. J. LEITH. 



Captain Leith was a devoted soldier of the South, and 
raised a company of volunteers in his native county of 
Hyde. His warfare was short, but brave and heroic, 
for he fell mortally wounded in defense of New Berne. 
His men proved their devotion to him by carrying his 
body six miles through tangled woods and swamps, on 
their shoulders, in order to get it out of the enemy's 
lines. His remains were interred at Thomasville, where 
his brother, John A. Arthur, then resided as a refugee. 
His sword and blood-stained scarf are preserved by his 
family as a rich heritage. None braver fell than he. 

M. C. 



78 The Confederate Reveille. 

Captain A. C. LATHAM. 



Captain Latham was Captain of the famous battery, 
known in Virginia as Latham's North Carohna Battery. 
This company was composed of men from Lenoir and 
Craven Counties. Captain Latham's reputation for 
bravery in battle was uiiiversal, and when the flag that 
had flashed defiance over an hundred battlefields was 
furled, his devotion did not fail in defeat ; it was, if pos- 
sible, stronger than in victory. He was an enthusiastic 
member of the ex-Confederate Association of Beaufort 
County, and a zealous worker in raising funds for the 
Confederate Monument. M. C. 



Captain JAMES COOK. 



James Cook was born in New Berne, N. C. He was 
an officer in the United States Navy ; member of the 
expedition, under Commodore Perry, that made the 
treaty throwing open Japan ports to the commerce of 
the world. He resigned from the United States Navy 
when war began between the South and the North; en- 
tered the Confederate States Navy; was with Lynch 's 
Flotilla in Eastern North Carolina and Captain of the 
Eam Albemarle, until her destruction by a torpedo-boat 
in 1864. 

He was a brave, determined oflicer. When the Civil 
War ended, he made his home in Suffolk, Virginia, 
where he died a few years ago. J. B. B. 



Bivouac of the Dead. 79 

Captain JOHN R. POTTS. 



Captain Potts was a brave, daring and generous son 
of Beaufort County ; he early volunteered, and in Jan- 
ury, 1862, was made First Lieutenant of Latham's Bat- 
tery. With this company, on the hard-fought battle- 
fields of Virginia, he made a brilliant and enviable record, 
being promoted to Captain; and on May 8, 1861:, yielded 
his life at Spottsylvania. He was the hope of an aged 
father and mother, but when the sacrifice was made, 
Abraham-like, their faith failed not. M. C. 



Captain J. J. GUTHRIE. 



John Julius Guthrie was a native of Washington, N. 
C. He entered the L^nited States Navy, and in 1861 
was a Lieutenant in the squadron then employed in sup- 
pressing the slave trade on the African coast. On the 
night of April 2i), 1861. he was detailed in command of 
two boats to board the ship Nightingale, of Boston, 
whose movements had excited suspicion. Lieutenant 
Guthrie found nine hundred and sixty-one slaves aboard, 
and took the ship as a prize. Commander Taylor, U. S. 
S., Saratoga, by whose order the capture was made, sent 
the Nightingale to the United States in command of 
Lieutenant Guthrie. He arrived at New York June 15, 
1861, and turned the ship over to the proper authorities. 
As the Civil War had broken out. Lieutenant Guthrie 
resigned his commission and threw his fortunes with 
the Confederacy. He was with Commodore Lynch 's 



80 The Confederate Reveille. 

Flotilla in Eastern North Carolina, afterwards Captain 
of the North Carolina Blockade- runner. Advance, with 
Captain Joe Gaskill for mate. The Advance was cap- 
tured, returning from Nassau to Wilmington, and her 
crew sent prisoners to Fort Lafayette. J. J. B. 



Lieutenant JAMES E. M. HOWARD. 



Born in Jones County, North Carolina, though his 
boyhood was spent in Washington, N, C. He was but 
a lad at Bingham's School, yet with a heart as loyal as 
those older, he was among the first who volunteered for 
the war. While his heart was with his State, yet through 
the pursuasion of friends he joined the Third Regiment 
Alabama Troops. In the battles around Richmond, 
June 1st, 1862, he was wounded. 

On his return to the army he was transferred to the 
Fourth North Carolina Troops, being physically unable 
to stand the long marches, he was put in charge of the 
Ordnance wagon. 1?-^ July, 1863, he was promoted to 
Lieutenant Company L, Fourth North Carolina Traops, 
and for awhile he had charge of the company. 

In 1861 his old wound began to trouble him, so Gen- 
eral Grimes advised him to ride, and loaned him a horse ; 
later he purchased a white horse, and while on this 
horse (which was only too good a mark) at the battle of 
Winchester, September 19th, 1864, while acting Adju- 
tant, he was mortally wounded, and was left in the 
hands of the enemy; taken to the Union Hospital at 
Winchester, where he died October 16th, having been 



Bivouac of the Dead. 81 

tenderly and faithfully nursed by the Southern ladies of 
that city. 

General Grimes said of him: " Lieutenant Howard 
was a very gallant and promising officer, the regiment 
was much attached to him; in fact, a universal favorite 
with all. ' Contributed. 

Colonel D. N, BOGART. 



Colonel Bogart was born in Washington, N. C, April 
2d, 184:7, where he spent his chil4hood, boyhood and 
iTianhood among a people who w^ere ever drawn to him 
by the magnetism of his presence and nobility of his life. 

When the turbulent days of 1861 called the sons of 
the South to defend her cause, Colonel Bogart, though 
but a youth, enlisted in the ranks, fighting for the 
Southland under the leadership of the immortal Lee. 
Brave, gallant, ever faithful to duty, he served his 
country until the surrender of 1865. 

For a number of years he was Colonel of the First 
Regiment North Carolina State Guard, and was at his 
post of duty when the summons came. He was an active 
member of the ex-Confederate Association of Beaufort 
County. M. J. P. 

Lieutenant E, Q. REDDING. 



" Young as the youngest who donned the gray, was 
Lieutenant E. Q. Redding, and as true as the truest who 
wore it. '' He volunteered in Carter's Company at Bath, 
and fell while making a charge at the battle of Seven 
Pines. 

He was an only son of a widowed mother. 'Tis said 
that his bravery almost amounted to rashness ; but the 



82 The Confederate Reveille. 

young patriot was so fired with love of country that self 
was forgotten. When the field was red with the blood 
of his comrades, he dashed forward, flashed his sword 
in defiance, fell a sacrifice on his country's hallowed 
altar. ' ' Comrades laid him away in the shady wood by 
the wayside and no stone marks the spot. God knows 
and Avatches over him, and to-day he lives in the tender 
memory of early associates. Eeveille. 

Lieutenant THOMAS L. PERRY. 



One of the most chivalrous young men that buckled 
on the armour in defense of his own Southland was 
Thomas L. Perry, a son of Mr. D. B. Perry, and brother 
of Mrs. R. W. Wharton. He was born and raised at the 
old homestead near this town, now occupied by Colonel 
Wharton. 

He volunteered and was commissioned First Lieuten- 
ant Company E., Fourth Regiment North Carolina State 
Troops, on the 16th of Ma}^, 1861, and went to the front. 
The valor he displayed attracted the attention of supe- 
rior ofiicers, and he commanded the respect of all the 
men under him. He was a man of valor: and realizing 
from his heart the honesty of the cause he had espoused, 
he fought to his death. After going through many of 
the most hotly contested battles, he fell wounded at 
Seven Pines, while gallantly acting as Adjutant of his 
regiment. His remains lie buried in Oakwood Ceme- 
tery, Richmond, Virginia. Reveille. 



The Confederate Reveille. 83 

APPOINTMENT OF A LADY. 



We give below a unique appointment as Clerk in Com- 
missary Department, to Miss E. M. B. Hoyt: having 
been burned out in Washington, she sought refuge with 
her brother-in-law, Major DeMille, in charge of the Com- 
missary Department, Greenville. Her pay, for faithful 
and efficient services, was in tobacco, which was ex- 
changed for a barrel of snuff, and finally sold for twelve 
dollars in greenbacks. 

Subsistence Department. 
GOLDSBORO, N. C, January 6, 1864. 

Major: As your application to appoint a lady clerk was the first 
ever made in my district, I concluded it was better to have it endorsed 
by Major Sloan. I forwarded it and wrote him, and he concurs with 
me in the propriety of giving them appointments when they are will- 
ing to take them. 

I am, Major, yours, Wm. W. Morrison, 

Major and Chief C. D. 
Major W. E. Demill. CD.. 

Greenville, N. C. L. E. 



STflRS ^.ND BARS 



The first Confederate flag displayed in Washington, 
N. (y., was made at the house of Samuel B. Waters, by 
Mrs. S. B. IVaters, Mrs. Claudia A. Benbury, Miss Jean- 
nette McDonald and Miss Sarah W. Williams, and was 
flung to the breeze from the window over the door of 
the court-house on the occasion of a speech in favor of 
the doctrine of State's rights and secession, delivered by 
AVilliam B. Rodman, and replied to by David M. Car- 
ter, in the fall of 1860. Reveille. 



84 The Confederate Reveille. 

THE MOSQUITO FLEET. 



Before North Carolina seceded some preparations were 
made for naval defenses. When the State joined the 
Confederacy these were turned over to the Confederate 
States Government, and by it placed under Flag Officer 
Barron, C. S. N. 

When Commodore Barron was taken prisoner at Hat- 
teras, August 29, 1861, Flag Officer W. F. Lynch was 
placed in command. He was Flag Officer of a Flotilla, 
composed of small vessels, intended for the defense of 
Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and of the rivers run- 
ning into them, and, in case of emergency, it could pass 
through Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal to the larger 
ships of the Confederate States Navy in Virginia waters. 

In a letter written to Major-General B. Huger, Feb- 
ruary IT, 1S()2, by Brigadier-Genera] Henry A. Wise, is 
the following: '' A braver (referring to Lynch), more 
earnest and active officer is not to be found in either 
army or navy, but he was too vainglorious of the fleet 
that got the name of the Mosquito Fleet.*' 

The Flotilla consisted of eight vessels, commanded by 
officers that had resigned from the United States Navy 
when hostilities commenced; Captains Cook, Muse, 
Hunter, Parker, Sinclair, Lieutenants Guthrie, Minor 
and others. The Flotilla cruised the sounds, and Neuse, 
Pamlico and Roanoke Rivers, visiting Washington, N. 
C, in 1861. The efficiency of this patrol is understood 
by the fact that, though Hatteras fell in August, the 
Federal forces made no effort to take Eastern Carolina 



The Confederate Reveille. " 85 

until the attack on Roanoke Island the ensuing Feb- 
ruary. When Burnside was assembhng at Hatteras the 
expedition for Roanoke Island, Flag Officer Lynch, in 
the Seabird (flag-ship), with the Raleigh (J. W. Alex- 
ander commanding) reconnoitered his movements and 
returned to Roanoke Island. At that battle the Flotilla 
occupied a position in Croatan Sound west of Roanoke 
Island, and on February Tth was attacked by the United 
States Fleet and Commodoi^e Lynch lost two steamers, 
Curlew (Hunter commanding), and Forest. Next day 
he reached Elizabeth City with the remaining six steam- 
ers of the Flotilla. Here he made a stand, and on the 
10th of February Captain Rowan opened fire on the lit- 
tle fleet. Lynch burned four of his steamers, but two, 
Beaufort (Captain Parker), and Raleigh (Captain Alex- 
ander), escaped, also a schooner, B]ack Warrior (Cap- 
tain Harris). The Beaufort and Raleigh reached Nor- 
folk. The officers of this little fleet, after its destruc- 
tion', rendered important services to the Confederate 
States — Commodore Lynch on the Cape Fear and Missis- 
sippi Rivers, Captain Muse on the Cape Fear, Sinclair 
on Confederate States ship, Nashville, Cook on the 
Ram, Albemarle. 

The name of " Mosquito Fleet " was subsequently ap- 
plied to the twelve or thirteen launches that, under Lieu- 
tenant Wood, destroyed the Underwriter at New Berne. 

J. J. B. 



86 The Confederate Reveille. 



JEFFERSON DfqVIS' ESTIMATE OF NORTH CARO- 
LINA TROOPS* 



As testimony of the estimation in which the North 
Carohna troops were held by those Avho had abundant 
means of judging, the following letter will, perhaps, be 
of interest to this and future generations: 

Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., May 9, 1882. 
Col. W. L. Saunders, Secretarij of State. 

Dear Sir : I am gratified to learn that you have in 
course of preparation a Roster of North Carolina troops 
in the Confederate service. 

Men live in the estimation of posterity, not by their 
deeds alone, but by their historians, also. North Carolina 
may proudly point to the valor of her sons in the Revo- 
lutionary War to sustain her declaration that she was a 
free, sovereign, and independent State. As one of the 
original thirteen that formed the Confederation, she 
clung to it with the fidelity and tenacity characteristic 
of her people; hence she was next to the last to accept 
the Constitution for a more perfect Union; but, having 
entered in, she was faithful to it in every public and 
private relation; and when it last became needful to 
consider the propriety of asserting the sovereignty she 
had never surrendered, the same deliberation which 
had marked her previous course then governed her ac- 
tion; hence she was not among the first to pass an ordi- 
nance for secession : yet, after having duly counted the 
cost, she boldly accepted the issue, and staked life, for- 
tune, and sacred honor on the maintenance of the prin- 
ciples for which her sons had fought, bled, and died in 
the war of 1776. 

How her sons bore themselves in the last ordeal, your 
Roster will partly tell. There will be shown the relative 

*From "The Reveille," January 5. 1886. 




JEFFERSON DAVIS. 



88 The Confederate Reveille. 

proportion of her troops to her population capable of 
bearing arms, and the long list of killed and wounded 
will prove that they were not the rear in attack or the 
front in retreat. 

I have often expressed my high estimate of the con- 
duct of North Carolinians during our war, but can 
eulogy enhance the fair fame with which their names 
will descend to posterity ? That their children and their 
children's children may be worthy of their sires is the 
best wish and highest hope which 1 can offer them. 
Yours faithfully, 

Jefferson Davis. 



BEflUFORT COUNTY SOLDIERS. 1861-1865. 



When Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States, within three days after the fail of Sumter called 
on Governor Ellis for the regiments of North Carolina 
troops to take part in a war against the Southern States 
that had left the Union, the Governor promptly refused, 
and by proclamation convened the General Assembly of 
the State to prepare for the crisis confronting her. At 
his request, the Assembly called for twenty thousand 
volunteers. Beaufort County responded enthusiastically, 
and before the end of January, 1862, eleven companies 
enlisted for periods ranging from twelve months to the 
close of the Civil AYar. Five of these companies were 
artillery, viz. : — 

1. The Washington Grays. 

'2. Kennedy Artillery. 

3. McMillan Artillery. 

4. Rodman's Heavy Artillery. 

5. Whitehurst's Artillery. 



The Confederate Reveille. 89 

Five were infantry companies, viz. : — 

1. Jeff Davis Rifles. 

2. Southern Guards. 

3. Pamlico Eifles. 

4. Confederate Guards. 

5. Beaufort Ploaghboys. 

The Star Boys was a cavalry company. 

The Grays organized in April, 1861; elected Thomas 
Sparrow, Captain; and on the 25th of that month, 
through Honorable W . B. Rodman, offered its services 
to Governor Ellis. The Governor commissioned it. May 
6, and asked to have the company increased to 112 men. 

It was ordered on May 10 to report at Ocracoke Inlet 
to E. Morris, North Carolina Engineers; left Washing- 
ton, May 20, and was stationed at Portsmouth, N. C, 
until August, when Colonel W. T. Martin (Seventh Reg- 
iment, North Carolina Volunteers) requested it to join 
his forces at Hatteras. It surrendered with that fort, 
August 29, 1861, and was in prison, first on Governor's 
Island, New York Harbor; second in Port Warren, Bos- 
ton Harbor, until February, 1862. 

Samuel Lanier, of this company, died in Fort Warren 
and was brought home and buried near Bath. After its 
exchange the company was reorganized. Captain Spar- 
row was promoted Major of the Tenth Regiment North 
Carolina State Troops; First Lieutenant William Shaw 
became Captain: and it was attached to the Tenth Regi- 
ment as Company K. Its subsequent service was chiefly 
on the Cape Fear River, below Wilmington. The Tenth 
was one of the regiments not brigaded. 

The Kennedy Artillery was raised by Charles P. Jones, 



90 The Confederate Reveille. 

a Methodist minister, in April, 1861, and was first sta- 
tioned about three miles north of Washington, N. C. 
Z. F. Adams was commissioned its second Captain, April 
21st, 1862, and it was afterwards known as Adams' 
Battery. The Battery was Company D., Fifth Battalion, 
Light Artillery. It was stationed at Fort Fisher, tak- 
ing part in both battles at the fort, and made prisoner 
in January, 1865, at that place. 

Captain W. H. Tripp, of the McMillan Artillery, was 
commissioned October 1, 1861. His company was drilled 
at Chocowinity by Lieutenants Bonner and Hardeuburg. 
From there it was ordered to Fort Hill, on Pamlico 
Kiver. 

Rodman's Heavy Artillery was named for its first 
Captain, W. B. Eodman, who received his commission 
October 21, 1861. Captain Eodman was promoted Ma- 
jor, and John E. Leggett became Captain, March 13, 
1862. It was first stationed at Swan Point, on Pamlico 
River. 

Captain C. C. Whitehurst was commissioned January 
23, 1862. His company was stationed at Fort Hill, 
Pamlico River. 

These three companies were ordered to reinforce New 
Berne, in March, 1862, but, on reaching Kinston, found 
the Confederates retreating. The McMillan Artillery 
and Rodman's Artillery went into camp at Falling- 
Creek, near Goldsboro; and W hi tehurst's Artillery re- 
mained at Kinston. In April, 1862, they were ordered 
to the Cape Fear River — McMillan and Whitehurst to 
Fort Fisher, Rodman's to Fort St. Phillips. 

When the Fortieth Regiment" was formed, at President 



The Confederate Reveille. 91 

Davis' suggestion, these companies were ordered to Bald 
Head, and became Company B., Company C, and Com- 
pany I., Fortieth Regiment. From Bald Head they 
were ordered to Georgia to reinforce General Hardee ; 
and then, back to Bald Head, which was evacuated in 
1865. They were in the battles of Fort Anderson, 
Town's Creek, Jackson's Mills and Bentonville; and 
surrendered with General Joseph E. Johnson, April 26, 
1865, at Greensboro. 

INFANTRY. 

The Jeff Davis Rifles were enlisted in 1861, the com- 
missions of its officers bearing date May 16, 1861. In 
1862, its Captain, John R. Carmer, resigned and Archi- 
bald Craige was promoted Captain. Eight of its pri- 
vates were transferred to the (confederate States Navy. 
It joined the Third Regiment, North Carolina State 
Troops, at Garysburg, as Company I. This regiment 
(Gaston Mears, Colonel) was first attached to Ripley's 
Brigade, Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. 

The Southern Guards, D. M. Carter, Captain, enlisted 
May, 1861, and was commissioned May 16. The chan- 
ges in the company were many. It had five Captains : 

(1). D. M Carter, wounded and promoted Colonel; 
(2). D. G. Latham, killed; (3). T. M. Allen, wounded 
twice; (1). J. H. Carter; (5). C. K. Gallagher. The 
company went into camp at Washington, N. C, in the 
spring of 1861. 

Pamlico Rifles was raised by W. T. Marsh, whose 
commission bore date May 10, 1861. The officers and 
privates were principally from Richland Township, and 



92 The Confederate Reveille. 

the company's first camp was on South (Jreek. Its Cap- 
tain, W. T. Marsh, was killed. 

Southern Guards and Pamlico Rifles joined at Garys- 
burg the Fourth Regiment (G. B. Anderson, Colonel), 
the Guards being Company E., the Rifles, Company I, 

The Fourth w^as ordered to Virginia and became a part 
of Anderson's Brigade, Early's Division, A. N. V. 

The Confederate Guards enlisted for twelve months, 
with James Swindell Captain. It drilled at Chocowinity ; 
was a part of Seventh Regiment, North Carolina Volun- 
teers. It went to Garvsburg in 1861 ; garrisoned Beau- 
fort, North Carohna, and, when the town was evacuated, 
went to Suffolk, Virginia. AYhen its time expired it 
disbanded. Twenty-one of its privates joined the Cav- 
alry Company commanded by Captain Fred Harding 
(Company K., Forty-first Regiment). These did noble 
service in AY. H. F. Lee's Division, Hampton's Corps, 

A. N. V. The remainder joined other companies. 
Beaufort Ploughboys received its commission Novem- 
ber 6, 1861. The company contained a full complement 
of commissioned and non-commissioned officers and 
men. Henry Harding was Captain nearly a year, when 
he w^as promoted Major of the legiment (61st), and 
William Stevenson became Captain. The Company was 
Company B., Sixty-first Regiment, North Carolina State 
Troops, at one time in Clingman's Brigade. Company 

B. was in the Battle at New Berne, after which it was 
ordered to Fort Fisher : then into South Carolina, and 
in 1864 to Virginia, being in engagements at Petersburg, 
Cold Harbor, and Drury's Bluff. It was at Bentonville, 
and surrendered in North Carolina. 



The Confederate Reveille. 93 

The Star Boys belonged to the Second North Carohna 
Cavalry (Company G., Nineteenth Regiment). It was 
stationed at Kittrell, where its First Lieutenant, Samuel 
Whitehurst, died. Its Captain, Louis E Satterthwait, 
was commissioned April 30, 1861, and on his resignation 
William M. Owens assumed command. Four of its pri- 
vates were transferred to the Confederate States Navy. 
It was first in W. H. F. Lee's Brigade, Stuart Division, 
A. N. V. 

Four of Beaufort County's infantry companies and the 
Star Boys served in the Army of Northern Virginia. 
From Seven Pines to Appomattox, Beaufort County 
soldiers fought in every great battle — Seven Pines, 
Ellyson's Mills, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Second Ma- 
nassas, Sharpsburg, Chancellors ville, Brandy Station, 
Upper ville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
Ream's Station, Petersburg. The Southern Guards lost 
heavily at Seven Pines : Captain Carter was wounded 
and First Lieutenant Perry, killed; at Sharpsburg its 
Captain, D. G. Latham, was killed. Captain W. T. 
Marsh, Pamlico Rifles, fell at Sharpsburg. 

The artillery was engaged in not less important duty, 
protecting Cape Fear River, which remained open to 
blockade-runners after other Southern rivers were 
closed. 

More than a regiment of soldiers entered the South- 
ern army from Beaufort County, most of them in her 
own companies, but some in other companies, noticeably 
in the Branch Artillery, Craven County. 

The only available death roll gives 170 men. Of these, 
seventy either were killed or died of wounds ; two died 



94 'The Confederate Reveille. 

at Elmira ; one at Fort Delaware ; one at Fort Warren ; 
one at Fort Pulaski ; the others during their periods of 
service. 

•*0n fame's eternal camping ground 
Their silent tents are spread." 

There, with those who have since joined the " Bivouac 
of the Dead," they await in peace the Archangel's Re- 
veille. J. J. B. 



PITT COUNTY SOLDIERS, 1861-1865 



The Presidential election of 1860 was doubtless the 
most exciting ever known in the South, and resulted in 
the election of Lin<"oln, and the attempted disruption of 
the Union, South Carohna taking the initiative, by pass- 
ing the ordinance of secession. December 20th following. 
Other Southern States soon followed it. The North 
Carolina Legislature was then in session, and in Febru- 
ary, 1861, passed an act for the election of delegates to 
a State Convention, provided a majority of the voters 
should at the same time vote for the Convention. A 
small majority opposed the Convention. 

Lincoln was inaugurated March 4, 1861, and immedi- 
ately began steps to preserve the Union. An attempt 
to provision Fort Sumter led to firing that shot which 
was echoed around the world. President Lincoln made 
requisition upon Governor Ellis for troops to fight the 
Seceded States. The requisition was refused, the Legis- 
lature was convened, and provisions made for electing 
delegates to a Convention. The Convention met, and 
on May 20, 1861, the ordinance of secession was passed. 



The Confederate Reveille. 95 

and North Carolina became the ninth meml er of the 
Southern Confederacy. F. B. Satterthwaite and Bryan 
Grimes represented Pitt County in the Secession Con- 
vention. 

Prior to the act of secession, preparations for war had 
been going on all over the State. Pitt County was not 
behind in that movement. Public opinion had been 
given out through mass meetings, conventions and other 
gatherings. Many deplored war, and there was much 
Union sentiment, but there was unity in ''North Caro- 
lina first." Companies were gotten up, equipped, drilled 
and hurried to the war to repel armed invasion under 
the authority of him, who was elected on the platform, 
denouncing '' the lawless invasion by armed force of the 
soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what 
pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. ' ' It was Lin- 
coln's bad faith that drove No7?th Carolina out of the 
Union, and Pitt County gave the flower of its manhood 
to its service. 

Company H, 2Tth Regiment. 

The first company raised ^in Pitt County was that 
afterwards known as Company H, of the Twenty- seventh 
Regiment. It was organized in March. 1861, with 
George B. Singeltary Captain, and R. W. Singeltary, 
First Lieutenant. It was organized with about 140 men. 
Leaving Greenville, it went to New Berne, remaining 
around there some time, then going to Virginia, where 
it was in the seven days' fight and other battles around 
Richmond and Petersburg, and was included in the sur- 
render at Appomattox. 



9H The Confederate Reveille. 

Its first Captain, George B. Singeltary, was commis- 
sioned Colonel of his regiment September 28. 1861, 
which he resigned the foUowmg December. He was 
commissioned Colonel of the Forty-fourth Regiment 
March 28, 18f)2, and was killed at Tranter's Creek June 
5 following. R. W. Singeltary succeeded to the Cap- 
taincy of Company H.. and was promoted Lieutenant 
Colonel of the regiment April 16, 1862. He resigned 
the following October. J. A. Williams, H. F. Price and 
J. F. Mauker, were respectively promoted Captain of 
this company. 

Company I, ITth Regiment. 

The second company was that of George W. Johnson, 
Captain, raised at Greenville, known as the ''Tar River 
Boys," over 100 strong. Robert Greene was First Lieu- 
tenant. Leaving Greenville it went to Portsmouth, N. 
C, and afterwards to Hatteras, where it was captured. 
After spending some time in Fort Warren prison, the 
men were paroled, and later exchanged. A reorganiza- 
tion of the company was afterwards made, but many of 
its former men had joined other companies, and new 
men helped to make up the new company, which then 
became 

Company K, ITth Regiment. 

Another company having become Company I., How- 
ard Wiswall, Captain, commissioned April 4, 1862, and 
John H. Gray, First Lieutenant. It was organized at 
Greenville, belonged to the North Carolina State Troops, 
but was sent to Virginia ; and, returning to the State, 
was in Johnson's army at its surrender. 



The Confederate Reveille. 97 

Company C, 44th Regiment. 

W. L. Cherry, Captain; commissioned January 25, 
1S62; Abram Cox, First Lieutenant. Organized at 
Greenville ; went to Camp Mangum ; back to Pitt County. 
After service in the eastern part of the State w^as sent 
to Virginia. W. L. Cherry w^as detailed Assistant Quar- 
termaster December 1, 1862, and W. G. Cherry suc- 
ceeded as Captain. Abram Cox was promoted A. C. S. 
April 1, 1862. 

Company G. 8th Regiment. 

E. C. Yeliowby, Captain; commissioned May 16, 1861; 
A. J. Hines, First Lieutenant. Organized at Greenville; 
went into camp at AYarrenton ; from there went to Roa- 
n3ke Island, where it was captured; was held prisoners 
on fleet until paroled, and later exchanged ; reorganized 
at Camp Mangum in September, 1862, and was sent to 
Kinston. Did service in South Carolina and Virginia. 
Was in Charleston during the seige of 1863; was in the 
battles around Petersburg and Richmond in 1864. Took 
conspicuous part in the capture of Pljaiiouth, April 2(>, 
1864, and was with Johnson at the surrender, only three 
of the organization members being on its rolls. E. C. 
Yeliowby was promoted Major August 8, 1863, and 
afterwards Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixty-eighth Regi- 
ment. Hines succeeded as Captain. 

Company E, 2Tth Regiment. 

William H. Morrill, Captain; commissioned April, 
1861; J. B. Barrett, First Lieutenant. Organized at 
Marlboro; went to New Berne for about a year; was 



98 The Confederate Reveille. 

sent to South Carolina and Virginia ; v/as at Gettysburg 
and at Appomattox. Morrill was promoted Commissary ; 
J. P. Joyner succeeded as Captain; and on his promo- 
tion to Adjutant, R. W. Joyner became Captain. 

Company D, Hth Regiment. 

L. R. Anderson, Captain; commissioned February 14, 
1862; Cornelius Stephens, First Lieutenant. Organized 
at Greenville; went fco Camp Mangum ; did service in 
the eastern part ot the State and then went to Virginia ; 
was in the battles around Petersburg and Richmond, in 
the seven days' fight; Gettysburg, the wilderness, and 
Appomattox. 

Company I, 4-1:TH Regiment. 

D. H. Smith, Captain; commissioned January 20, 
1862; J. J. Bland, First Lieutenant. Organized in the 
Switt Creek section, and contained some Craven County 
men; John R. Roach was promoted Captain from Lieu- 
tenant. 

Company E, 55th Regiment. 

James Gr. Whitehead, Captain; commissioned April 
1, 1862; H. W. Brown, First Lieutenant. Organized 
at Greenville ; went to Camp Mangum. After service 
in the State went to Virginia ; was at Gettysburg and 
sustained heavy losses. James G. Whitehead promoted 
Major, May 19, 1862. and died March lo, 1863. Howell 
G. AVhitehead promoted Captain, September 3, 1862. 

Company E, 66th Regiment. 
G. VV. Cox, Captain; I. K. Witherington, First Lieu- 
tenant. Organized at New Berne, and had some officers 



The Confederate Reveille. 99 

and men from other counties, but mostly from Pitt ; did 
service of bridge guards around Kinston, New Berne 
and other places ; was in Virginia a short while ; was 
first in Wright's Battalion, and helped form the Sixty - 
sixth Regiment, after which it was around Wilmington 
and with Johnston at the surrender. G. W. Cox was 
promoted Provo Marshall of Kinston and S. S. Quin- 
erly succeeded as Captain. 

Company E, 6Tth Regiment. 
C. A. White, then of Craven, Captain; commissioned 
February 10, 1863; Asa W. Jones, First Lieutenant. 
Organized in the lower part of the county, with some 
men from other counties ; State troops, and never left 
the State; saw much service in this section; disbanded 
at close of war near Greenville. 

Company H, 6Tth Regiment. 

Asa W. Jones, Captain; commissioned June 30, 1863; 
promoted from Company E: D. W. Wood, First Lieuten- 
ant. Organized with recruits from Company E ; half 
its men were from other counties; service, same with 
Company E. 

Company I, 6Tth Regiment. 

Edward F. White, Captain ; commissioned September 
22, 1863; W. W. Tucker, First Lieutenant. Also or- 
ganized from Company E, with other recruits; service, 
same as Companies E and H. 

Junior Reserves. 
One company of Junior Reserves was organized at 
Goldsboro in April, 1864, the majority being from Pitt 



100 The Confederate ReveiUe. 

County ; did services as bridge guards. Went to Virginia 
a short while in December. 1861; returned to the State, 
and were attached to Johnston's army at the surrender. 
McD. Boyd, Captain; J. J. Laughinghouse, First Lieu- 
tenant ; afterwards promoted Captain, being only six- 
teen, and the youngest man in the Confederate army 
bearing a Captain's commission. 

Company D, 8rd Eegiment. 

Raised principally in New Hanover County ; had sixty 
privates from Pitt County. 

Others. 

Pitt County furnished quite a number of officers and 
a great many privates to other companies and regi- 
ments. Louis Hilliard, Assistant Commissary of Sub- 
sistence of the Second Regiment; commissioned July 
15, 18f)l. Bryan Grimes, commissioned Major Fourth 
Regiment, May. 1861; rose successively to Lieutenant 
Colonel, and Colonel of that regiment, and Brigadier 
General and Major General ; with the exception of Gen- 
eral R. F. Hoke, the only North Carolinian not a West 
Pointer and without previous military training, who 
rose to so high rank. 

Charles J. O'Hagan. Surgeon Thirty- fifth Regiment, 
promoted from ranks., 

W. C. Jordan, Assistant yuartern:iaster, Sixty-sixth 
Regiment. 

J. N. Bynum, Surgeon Forty-fourth Regiment, pro- 
moted from ranks. 

L. J. Barrett, Captain Company H., Seventy-fifth 
Regiment, promoted from ranks. 



Hie Confederate Reveille. 101 

Pitt County furnished more than l.2(K) troops, and of 
it may be said, '' First at Bethel," '' Last at Appomat- 
tox,'' for Henry Wyatt, claimed to be the first soldier 
killed in line of battle, had long lived in Pitt County, 
having gone to Edgecombe a short time before enlist- 
ing; and North Carolina troops under Major General 
Bryan Grrimes made the last charge at Appomattox. 
And, too, the only Confederate flag planted upon the 
Fedei al works at Gettysburg on the third day, was in the 
hands of E>an Thomas, who afterwards made Pitt 
County his home and now sleeps beneath its sod. 

Pitt County troops were in many of the hardest 
fought battles, and man}^ were those who never returned, 
finding a last resting place among strangers, leaving a 
record of duty, heroically performed, patriotism untar- 
nished, sacrifices hitherto uinknown, and valor unex- 
celled, a fit monument to their ijiimortal achievements. 

Henry T. Kma. 

Greenville, N„ C, April 11, 1898. 



CRflVEN COUNTY IN ThjE WfIR BETWEEN THE 
STATES, 1861-1865. 



The following is a partial list of the companies of sol- 
diers that went to the front f i om Craven County during 
the late war. It is iacomplete, but as full and accurate 
as the limited space allowed for its publication will ad- 
mit of. It is not pretended that it is in any sense a his- 
tory, but is rather a roster of the several companies, 
with their officers at the time of their original organi- 
zation, with some few additional particulars: 
8 



102 The Confederate Reveille. 

1. The "Elm City Rifles," Company '' K/' SecoDcl 
Regiment Infantry, North Carolina State Troops, an old 
volunteer company, organized in 1857. It was ordered 
to Fort Macon, Beaufort Harbor, April loth, 18B1, with 
a force^of 78 men, rank and file, and four of^cers. Cap- 
tain, George C. Lewis; Lieutenants, Alexander Miller, 
Jr., Richard D. Hancock, Joseph F. Hellen, and. later, 
AVilliam Calder. The company was transferred to the 
Second Regiment, June 18th, 1861; li>l privates were 
enlisted in this company during its whole term of service. 

2. The "New Berne Light Infantry " was another 
old volunteer company, organized in 1856. It was as- 
signed to the Fifth Regiment of State Troops as Com- 
pany ''D.*' Of its men, forty-six were from Craven 
County when it was mustered into the service, the re- 
mainder from Lenoir. Its officers were: Captain, Jacob 
Brookfield (killed at Williamsburg); Lieutenants, Wil- 
liam George Brinson, Elijah C. Cuthbert, R. R, Grant, 
S. F. Flannagan. During the war this company num- 
bered 136 privates in all. 

3. Company '' I.'' of the Second Regiment, State 
Troops, Infantry, was organized as the " Beauregard 
Rifles," with a complement of 77 enlisted men and four 
officers: Captain, Daniel W. ITurtt; Lieutenants, John 
P. Dillingham (Quartermaster), N. Collin Hughes, Ed- 
ward K. Bryan, Sylvester Taylor; the Captain's com- 
mission bearing date of May I6th, 1861. There were 
124 privates altogether enlisted in this company. 

1. The " Gaston Rifles " were also of the Second In- 
fantry, being Company " F" of that regiment. Its origi- 
nal muster rolls foot up 70 enlisted men and four ofifi- 



The Confederate Reveille. 103 

cers, viz.: Hugh L. Cole, Captain; N. Macon Chad- 
wick, B. L. Wetherington, and H. J. B. (lark, Lieuten- 
ants. The commission of the Captain was also dated 
May 16th, 1861. There were 130 privates in aU. 

5. Company " B." (Artillery) of the Tenth Regiment, 
North Carolina State Troops, was mustered into service 
on June 12th, 1861, and was stationed first at Fort Ma 
con. It numbered then 96 enlisted men, with the fol- 
lowing officers: Tilghman H. Guion, Captain; A. C. 
Latham. Thaddeus Coleman and Joseph W. Stevenson, 
Lieutenants; 131 privates in all. Commissions dated 
May 16th, 1861. 

6. The "Craven County Artiller}^, " Captain, John N. 
Whitford ; Lieutenants, Stephen G. Barrington and Ed- 
ward Whitford, was first on duty at Fort Thompson, 
near New Berne, and went into sevice with 107 enlisted 
men, besides fonr offices. The Company was afterwards 
transferred to the infantry, and became Company '' B " 
of the Sixty-seventh Eegiment, with Stephen G. Bar- 
rington as Captain, and Thomas H. Gaskins and Joseph 
D. Myers, Lieutenants. Before its transferal to the In- 
f.'^ntry, this company was C'ompany '' I '' of the Tenth 
Eegiment North Carolina Troops (First Artillery). 

T„ The " Gatlin Artillery " served first also at Fort 
Thompson with 98 enlisted men. Its officers were: 
James S. Lane, Captain ; Adam Barrington, Henry H. 
Hooker and John J. Brabble, Lieutenants. It was after- 
wards Company " D " of the Fortieth Regiment (Artil- 
lery), and numbered 151 privates, all told, some of them 
from Lenoir and Wayne Counties. 

These seven companies were mustered in at the outset. 



104 The Coil federate Reveille. 

not for one year, or for any fixed period, but as " State 
troops, for the war." A list of the original enlistments 
is still preserved. 

Besides the companies mentioned, the following in the 
Sixty-seventh Regiment. Infantry, were also irom Craven 
County, viz. : Company '' D, '' Captain, Daniel A. Cog- 
dell: Lieutenants, Joseph W. Brothers, William P. Lane 
and David Cogdell. Company " F," Captain, Da 'id P. 
IVhitford; Lieutenants, John J. Bunn, James H. Mar- 
shall and James F. Heath. 

Company '^ F, '' Thirty-sixth Regiment, North Caro- 
lina Troops (Artillery^, v/as recruited mostly in Craven 
County, though some of the men were from Halifax 
County. Its officers were: Samuel B. Hunter, Captain ; 
Eium L. Hunter, Wihie C. WiUilord and Wilfiam (\ 
Daniel, Lieutenants. 

Company " H, " of the Sixiy-sev^^nth Regiment, was 
composed largely of men from Craven County, as was 
Company ^^ E '" of the Forty -first Regiment ^ Third Cav- 
alry). In Company '^ H," Ninth Regiment, North Car- 
olina Troops (First Cavalry), were many men from Cra- 
ven County, among them George L. Dewey , at one time 
its Captain, who was killed in action at Dinwiddie 
Court House, Virginia, March 81st, 1865. 

A company deserving of special mention is the 
" Branch Artillery,'' named in honor of General L. 
O'B. Branch. Recruited at first in Craven, it was after- 
wards reinfo]*ced by a detachment from Carteret, and 
was first in action at the battle of New Berne, March, 
1862. It was probably the only Light Artillery Com- 
pany sent out from Craven County during the war. and 



The Confederate ReveiUe. 105 

was known in the Army of Northern Virginia sacces- 
sivel}^ as Latham's (North Caroh'na) Battery, and Flan- 
ner's Battery. Its officers were: Alexander C. Latham, 
John Potts (idlied). and Henry G. Flanuer, Captains; 
Samuel W. Latham, Woodbury Wheeler, John Perry 
(afterwards (3rdnance Officer), and George Bryan, Lieu- 
tenants. 

This company was assigne 1 to the Thirteenth North 
Carolina Battalion as Compiir.y " F, '' and served in the 
Army of Northern Virginia in the Artillery Battalions of 
R. Lindsay Walker and Major John C. Haskell. 

In addition to those mentioned, there were men from 
Craven County in the Twenty -second and Thirty- third 
Infantry; also in other regiments, both of Cavalry and 
of Infantry; in the Staff De])aitments and in the Navy, 
who cannot be enumerated. 

Thus it will be seen that Craven County, the greater 
part of which, including the town of New Berne, was 
occupied by the Federal forces during the war, sent out 
thirteen large companies, besides many men in detached 
commands, and that from a voting population of 1,200, 
as polled at the Gubernatorial election of August, I860, 
then the largest vote ever polled in the county, i^ brave 
showing and a most creditable record. 

The writer invites corrections, suggestions, criticisms, 
and amendments of this brief and ijnperfect sketch. 

A complete miliiary history of each of our counties 
during the late war would be of much value and inter- 
est, and such histories should be carefully written and 
preserved. Graham Daves, 

Adjutant '22d Regiment N. C. Troops. 

New Berne, N. C. 



106 The Confederate Reveille. 

NORTh CflROLINfq'S WflR GOVERNOR - 



Zebulon Baird Vance was chjsen on May ith, 18(31, to 
lead the second company raised in his native county. 
The August following he was elected the Colonel of the 
Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment. "' His career 
as a soldier was brief, but honorable." 

In the battle of New Berne and the seven days' fight 
around Richmond he bore himself with coolness and gal- 
lantry, and won the love and affection of his men, not 
merely by his power of personal attraction, but by care- 
ful attention to their wants and comforts. 

In August, 1862, he was elected by a large majority 
to the Chief Magistracy of this State. His career as a 
soldier was ended, but he was to gather fresh laurels as 
North Carolina's great War Governor. No sooner had 
he assumed office than the influence of his strong arm 
was immediately felt at the helm of State. Fresh from 
the field, his first thought was for those half-clad, shoe- 
less men who had gone forth iu defense of their country. 
How well North Carolina's troops were clad, shod and 
blanketed, those of us who survive can well testify, and 
the privations and the sufferings of many a poor lad 
were mitigated and relieved by the wise forethought 
and timely action of Governor Vance. In addition to 
stores^ for|military use, he caused to be brought from 
abroad various kinds of machinery to be used in the 
manufacture of clothing. Not content with doing all 
that lay within him to relieve the necessities of his peo- 

* Extracts from a speech by Mr. John B. jMcRae. 




ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE. 



108 The Confederate Reveille. 

pie, whether in the field or at home, he guarded zeal- 
ously the sacred writ of haheas corpus, and strenuously 
resisted the encroachments and usurpations of military 
po"^rer. He called the attention of the Confederate Gov- 
ernment towards the evils resulting from the abuses of 
the conscript law. He urged on the Department of AVar, 
the formation of North Cai olina regiments into brigades, 
commanded by North Carolinians, and did all T^ ithin his 
power to relieve the necessities and sufferings of the 
Federal prisoners confined at Salisbury. 

In May, 18(i-t, he visited the sixty-five North Carolina 
Eegiments belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia, 
and with his fiery eloquence he bid the men be of good 
cheer and stand fast to their colors. But the end was 
not far distant. Twelve months later, after sustaining- 
one of the most memorable sieges known to men, Peters- 
burg fell, and the great Army of Northern Virginia that 
had for four long years fought a contest unequahed in 
the annals of history, succumbed before overwhelming- 
forces. Appomattox was soon followed by the surren 
der of General Johnston, and the sun of the Confederacy 
was extinguished forever. Ah I who can forget those 
fearful days I 

North Carolina's Governor was arrested in his home 
in the dead of night and carried to the old capitol prison 
at Washington. How he captivated his captors by the 
brightness of his wit and the drollery of his humor his 
subsequent release, his memorable campaign with Judge 
Settle in the summer and fall of 18T(i; his election a 
third time as Governor and his subsequent career in the 
United States Senate, all these events form a part of the 
history of this country. 



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Having served his State faithfully in the Senate fox- 
twelve long years, he passed away to gentler shades, 
twelve long y , i service of his country 

ha-'ing as truly lost his iite lu uie i= 
as if he had fallen on the field of battle. 



THE SOUTH 

By Father Rya>'. 



Yes sive me the land where the ruins are spread, 
.„d the living tread light on the l>eart of the dead. 
Yes give me the land that is blest by the dust. 
And bright by the deeds of the down-trodden just. 

Yes give me the land where the battle's red blast, 
Has flashed on the future the fonn of the past^ 
Yes give me the land that hath legends and lays. 
And tell of the memories of long-vanished days. 

Yes -ive me ihe land that hath story and song, 
ToteU of the strife of the right with the wrong ; 
Yes give me the land with a grave in each spot, 
And the names in the graves that cannot be forgot. 

Yes give me the land of tlie wreck and the tomb- 
Theme's grandeur in graves, there's glory m gloom : 
For out of the gloom future brightness is born, 
As, after the night, looms the sunrise of morn. 
And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown. 
Mav yet form the footstool of liberty's hrone : 
And each simple wreck in the way-path of night, 
Shall yet be a rock in the temple of right. 



110 The Confederate Reveille. 

Hor). GEORGE DflVIS.- 



The limits of this pubh cation will only permit a brief 
account of the honorable record of this distinguished 
citizen of the Cape Fear section. Mr. Davis was born 
March 1st, 1820, at Porter's Neck, then New Hanover, 
now Pender County. He became a leading lawyer, and 
was recognized as amoag the ablest jurists of his time. 
A lineal descendent of the founders of the Cape Fear 
settlement, he had an intense love for his native section, 
and it is an irreparable misfortune that he never under- 
took the writing of the history of Eastern Carolina. 
His essays are among the choicest expressions of his 
times, and those upon the history of the Cape Fear re- 
gion will be of priceless value to coming generations. 
AVe quote a gem in the following: 

" The slave is free. Clod speed him in his freedom, 
and make him worthy of it. The slaveholder has passed 
into history at the cannon's mouth. His future life 
must be there, and there he will live forever. He did 
the State some service. AVas great in council and in 
action, clear in honor and in truth, and always a man 
wherever true manhood was wanted. He knew how 
to compel the love of friends and the respect of enemies, 
and how to build his proudest monument in his country's 
greatness. But there are those who never loved him, and 
whose fashion it still is to make him the embodiment of 
evil, the moral scarecrow of the times. True, he ended 
well. True, that as he stood and died by his hearth- 

* Extracts from a Memorial i)repared by the Chamber of Commerce, 
Wilmington, N. C. 




Hon. George Davis. 



112 The Covfederafe EeveiUe. 

stone, fighting as he beheved for God and country, he 
was something for men and gods to behold. But what is 
that to them ? They desire to see nothing but his hu- 
mihation, and to their distorted vision, Behsarius, bhnd 
and begging at the Roman gates, was not half so poor 
a sight. They cannot forgive him for having been great, 
and they delight to howl the death song of his great- 
ness. They trample on its grave. " '•'" ■• And they 
think they have buried it out of their sight forever. 
xVnd do they think that the spirit which brought this 
Republic out of chaos, and directed it for the fifty years 
of its truest greatness and purity, can be annihilated by 
a proclamation ? And do thsy believe that Washington 
and Jefferson, and Jackson and Clay, and Stonew^all and 
Lee, and all the long roll of our heroes and patriots and 
statesmen, are but dead names, pale ghosts that can but 
squeak and gibber at their fallen greatness ? That they 
have left no living .riemories in their children's hearts, 
no sacred seed that can once more bourgeon and bloom 
for our country's honor .-^ Oh, no! That spirit is not 
dead. It will rise again. Not ni the old likeness, for 
old things have passed away; but transformed and 
quickened into a new life. Once more it will make itself 
a name for the nation to sound. Once again it will step 
to the front and pass first in fight, as it was wont to do 
wherever great opinions are clashing, or a great cause 
imperilled. Once again to the front, whenever and 
wherever freedom/ s battle is to be fought. Once again 
to the front, no more to contend with the brethren in 
arms, but only in the generous strife for the glory and 
honor of a common country." 



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In 1861 the shadow of a great national calamity ap- 
peared. Mr. Davis loved the Union, and steadfastly 
counseled moderation. His appoint riiOnt by Governor 
Ellis as a member of the Peace Commission created a 
feeling of absolute confidence in the minds of conserva- 
tive citizens. Upon his return from the " Peace Con- 
gress,'' assembled in Washington City February l, 18(11. 
Mr. Davis made a powerful speech, a masterpiece of ora- 
tory, which profoundly moved aud stirred the hearts of 
all. he concluded: '' For his part he could never assent 
to the terms contaiued in this report of the ' Peace Con- 
gress, ' as in accordance with the honor or interests of 
the South.'' 

In June. 1861, Mr. Davis was elected Senator to the 
Confederate Congress. In January, 1864-, he was ap- 
])ointed by President Davis x\ttorney General in his Cab- 
inet, and he was held in the highest esteemi by his de- 
voted Chief, as is attested in their correspondence. At 
the close of the war the Attorney General was impris- 
oned for some months in Fort Hamilton, and was finally 
released upon parole not to leave the State of North 
Carolina. 

In January, 1878, Governor Vance offered Mr. Davis 
the Chief Justiceship, made vacant b}" the death of Chief 
Justice Pearson, but he declined, to the unbounded re- 
gret of his friends all over the State. 

Mr. Davis w^as a splendid illustration of every manly 
and noble virtue, chivalrous and honorable, a true type 
of the Olden School — the type that never had its supe- 
rior, and that never will. His name and his fame will 
be handed down from generation to generation. The 



114 The Covfederafe Reveille. 

recognized head of his noble profession in this State, no 
future historian can ever truthfully record the great 
deeds of the best and ablest sons of this noble old com- 
monwealth without paying tribute to George Davis, of 
New Hanover. 

He died in Wilmington, N. C, February 23, 189H, and 
the Christian grace and dignity with which he met the 
final summons was bnt the crowning glory of an hon- 
orable and exemplary career on this earth. 



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115 




Bryan (jrriuie!> (Jauip. 
Organized May 30, 1883 Incorporated March 11, 1885. 



EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS Of BEAUFORT 
COUNTY. 



When, in 1861, North CaroHna withdrew from the 
Union, and Grovernor Elhs called for voluateers, Beau- 
fort County promptly responded to the call. Between 
1861 and 1865 she sent to the front no less than ten 
companies of volunteers, while many of her sons enlisted 
in other commands. 

In May, 1 883, the Association ex-Confederate soldiers 
of Beaufort County was organized, and was duly incor- 
porated March Uth, 1885. So far as we know this Asso- 



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ciation was the first of its kind in North Carohna. The 
purpose of the Association was to ascertain the names 
of the soldiers furnished by Beaufort County to the Con- 
federate States; to preserve reHcs or mementos of the 
Civil War, and to cherish the ties and friendship that 
should exist among men who have shared common dan- 
gers, privations and sufferings. 

The officers of the Association were a President, Vice- 
President, Treasurer, Secretary, Commander, Surgeon, 
Chaplain and Adjutant. All persons who served in the 
Confederate army or navy, their sons, brothers or neph- 
ews who might so desire were privileged to join the 
Association. Major Thomas Sparrov/ was elected the 
first President; Major William A. Blount, Vice-Presi- 
dent; Captain William Shaw. Treasurer; C. C. Thomas, 
Secretary. The name of Bryan Grimes Camp w^as chosen 
in honor of the late lamented, distinguished and gallant 
soldier, Major General Bryan Grimes. The annual time 
of meeting is May 3()th, which time has been regularly 
observed since the formation in I880. 

The present officers of the Association are the Eev. 
N. Harding, President; William Patrick, Vice-President; 
Kev. W. H. Call, Secretary: Captain Macon Bonner, 
Commander; Captain J. G. Bragaw^, Adjutant; Dr. J. 
M. Gallagher, Surgeon; the Rev. C. M. Payne, D. D., 
Chaplain. 

The present Advisory Board is as follows: W. II. 
Stancill, Edward Tripp, John W. Latham, F. H. von 
Eberstein, Pr. J. M. Gallagher and Thomas Allen. 



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LIST OF NORTH CAROLINA GENERALS IN TI-|E 
CONFEDERATE fIRMY. 



ADJUTANT-GENERAL. 

James G. Martin. 

ASSISTANT A D JUT ANT-GENERALS. 

A. Gordon. 
John C. Winder. 
William B. Gulick. 

SURGEON-GENERAL. 

Charles E. Johnson, 

18<U. 

ADJUTANT-GENERALS. 

E. C. Gathn. 
Daniel G. Fowle. 

SURGEON-GENERAL. 

Edward Warren. 

GENERAL OFFICERS. 

LIEUTENANT-GENERALS. 

Theophilus H. Holmes. 
Daniel H. Hill. 

MAJOR-GENERALS. 

Robert Ransom, entered C. S A. as Colonel of the iHh 
Regiment. 

Cadmus M. Wilcox. 
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118 The Confederate Reveille. 

William D. Pender, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of the 
(Ith Eegiment; killed at Gettysburg, Virginia, July ISth, 
1S63. 

Stephen D. Ramseur, entered C. S. A. as Major of the 
loth Regiment; killed at Cedar Run, Virginia. October 
19th, 1864-. 

Robert F. Hoke, entered C. S. A. as Lieutenant of 
Company H., 1 1th Regiment; promoted to Major of the 
11th Regiment. 

B^yan Grimes, entered C. S. A. as Major of the 4th 
Regiment. 

BRIGADIER-GENERALS . 

James B. Gordon, entered C. S. A. as Major of the 
1st Regiment; killed at Yellow Tavern. Virginia, May 
11th, 1864. 

Matt. \V. Ransom, entered C. 8. A. as Ijieutenant 
Colonel of the 1st Regiment. 

William R. Cox, entered C. S. A. as Major of the !>d 
Regiment. 

George B. Anderson, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of 
the 4th Regiment; mortally wounded at Sharpsburg, 
Virginia, September ITth, 18()2. 

Lawrence S. Baker, entered C. S. A. as Lieutenant 
Colonel of the 9th Regiment. 

Rufus Barringer, entered C. S. A. as Captain of a 
company in the 9th Regiment. 

William H. (Jheek, entered C. S. A. as Captain of a 
compmy in the 9th Regiment. 

W^iUiam G. Lewis, entered C. S. A. as First Lieuten- 
ruL in a company in^the 11th Regiment. 



The Confederate Reveille. 119 

Alfred M. Scales, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of the 
18th Eegiment. 

Junius Daniel, entered C. 8. A. as Colonel of tlie 14th 
Regiment; killed at Cold Harbor, Virginia, May 12th, 
1<SH1. 

William McRea, entered C. S. A. as Captain of a com- 
pany in the 15th Regiment. 

vA^illiam P. Roberts, entered C. S. A. as Second Lieu- 
tenant of a company in the 19th Regiment. 

Alfred Iverson, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of the 
20th Regiment. 

William W. Kirkland, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of 
the 21st Regiment. 

James Johnston Pettigrew, entered C. S. A. as Colo- 
nel of a South Carolina Regiment ; his regiment took 
possession of Castle Pinckney and afterwards transferred 
to Morris Island; joined Hampton Legion as a private, 
and went with that body to Virginia, and a few days 
afterwards was elected Colonel of the 2 2d Regiment 
(N. C); killed at Falhng Waters, Virginia, July 14th, 
] 863. 

Robert D. Johnston, entered C. S. A. as a Captain in 
a company of the 23d Regiment. 

Thomas L. Clingman, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of 
the 25th Regiment. 

James H. Lane, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of the 28th 
Regiment. 

Robert 3. Vance, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of the 
29th Regiment. 

Lawrence O'B. Branch, entered C. S. A. as Colonel 
of the 33d Regiment; killed at Sharpsburg, Virginia, 
Septeaiber ITth, 1862. 



120 The Confederate Reveille. 

CoUeit Leventhorpe, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of 
the 48d Regiment. 

Archibald C. Godwin, entered C. S. A. as Colonel of 
the 5Tth Regiment; killed at Winchester, Virginia, Sep- 
tember 19th, 1S(U. 

Beveily Robertson. 

John R. Cooke. 

Wilcox, a Tenneesean; Robertson, a South Carolin- 
ian; Cooke, a Virginian, all commanded North Caro- 
linians. 

NORTH CAROLINIANS WHO WERE GENERAL OFFICERS 
IN SOUTHERN ARMIES. 

Braxton Bragg, Brigadier-General, 1861 ; command- 
ing at Pensecola; Major-General, 1862, army of Missis- 
sippi; General, 1862; ordered to Richmond to conduct 
military operations in the armies of the Confederate 
States, under direction of the President. 

Leonidas Polk. Major-General, commanding the West- 
ern Department, 186i; ai'my of Mississippi, 1862; Lieu- 
tenant-General, 1862; killed at Pine Mountain, Georgia, 
June 14, 1864. 

William W. Loring, Colonel commanding District of 
New Mexico, 1861; Brigadier -General Army of North- 
western Virginia, 1861; Major-General Army of Miss- 
issippi, 1864. 

Benjamin McCullock, Colonel commanding Division 
of Middle Texas, 1861; Brigadier-General District of In- 
dian Territory. 1861 

F. K. Zollicoffer, Brigadier- General commanding 
Southeastern Kentucky, 1861. 



The Confederate Reveille. 121 

Gabriel J. Eaines, Brigadier- General Array of Penin- 
sula, Virginia, 1861 ; Superintendent of Torpedo Bureau, 

186-1:. 

A COMPARISON. 

The following was prepared by the "' New York 
Times" from the census of 1860, and the report of 
losses in battle, and shows what the '' New York 
Times " calls the " heroic valor "' of the North Carolina 
Troops : 

Killed White 

and Mortally Popula- 

Wounded. tion 

North Carolina 14.522 629,943 

Virginia 5,328 1,047,299 

South Carolina 9.187 412,320 

Georgia 5,553 591,550 

Mississippi 5,807 353,809 

Louisiana -.. 9,714 357,456 

The " Times '' also gives the fact that North Carolina 
also leads the list in the number that died of wounds, 
and 20,602 of her sons died of disease. North Carolina's 
military population in 1861 was 115,369, but she fur- 
nished 125,000 to the Confederate cause. 

The fame of North Carolina is now secure in history, 

A. G. 



122 The Confedej^ate Reveille. 

NORTH CAROLINA AT APPOMATTOX. 



From the ^oth volume of the " Rebelhon Records," 
recently published, I take the following synopsis of the 
North Carolina commands from the '' Appomattox 
parole list," showing the North Carolina brigades at the 
surrender, with the commanding officers and strength 
of each. " 

North Carolina had there paroled one Major General, 
Bryan Grimes, and six Brigadiers, i. e., W. R. Cox, 
Matthew W. Ransom, John R. Cooke, William MacRea, 
W. P. Roberts and J. H. Lane. 

Total rank 
Brigade. Commanded by and file sur- 

rendered. 

1. Cox's Brig.-Genl. W. R. Cox 573 

-2. Grimes' Col. D. G. Cowand 580 

3. Johnston's Col. J. W. Lea 463 

4. Lewis' Capt. John Beard 447 

5. Cookes' Brig.-Genl. J. R. Cooke 560 

6. MacRea's Brig.-Genl. Wm. MacRea 442 

7. Lane's Brig. -Genl. J. H . Lane 570 

8. Scales'. .Col. J. H. Hyman .._ 719 

9. Ransom's Brig.-Genl. M. W. Ransom 435 

10, *Barringer's 23 

11. *Roberts' Brig.-Genl. W. P. Roberts 93 

Maj. -Genl. Grimes and Suaff 18 

Cummings', Miller's, Williams', Flanners' and Ramsay's 

Batteries 150 



Total North Carolinians paroled 5,022 

* Cavalry. 

The following North Carolina regiments were in the 
above brigades at the surrender: 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 
6th, 9th (1st Cavalry); 11th, 12th, 13th, 14:th, 15th, 

*Hon. Walter Clark, in News and Observer. 



The Confederate Revenie. 128 

KUh, ISth, lyth (2d Cavalry); 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 
25th, 26th, 2Tth, 2Sth. 80th, ;32d, 88d, 34th, 35th, 3Tth, 
38th, 41st (3d Ca^-alry); 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 4Tth, 
48th, 49th, 52d, 53d, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, oDth (4th 
Cavahy); 63d •, 5th Cavalry); 1st North Carolina Battal- 
ion Sharpshooters, 2d North Carolina Battalion, 16th 
North Carolina Battalion (cavalry), and the five batte- 
ries of artillery above named. Total, forty-two regi- 
ments and one battalion infantry ; five regiments and 
one battalion cavalry, and five batteries of artillery. 
That all theee shonld have numbered only 5,000, rank 
and file, at the surrender, shows the wear and tear North 
Carolina troops had sustained. First and last, by the 
muster rolls, these commands had contained over 100, Ono 
men . 

The '' official parole list '' settles that the rank of Gen- 
eral John B. Gordon was only that of Major General, 
and not Lieutenant General, as has been claimed, for 
he could not have been promoted after the surrender. 
Major General E. F. Hoke, of North Carohna, there- 
fore, ranked him. and next to Lieutenant Greneral Long- 
street and S. D, Lee, is the ranking Confederate General 
now Uving. 

The number of Confederates surrendered has been 
often stated as 0,000. The number of muskets, ex- 
clusive of officers, wounded, medical, commissariat, ord- 
nance, etc., may have approximated that, but the 
parole lists shows conclusively that at the supreme mo- 
ment over 28,000 Confederates still abided by the colors 
and surrendered with Lee. In immediate front of them 
was Grant with 130.000 men and 100,000 men in call- 
ing distance. 



124 The Confederate Reveille. 

THE FALL OF MATTERAS, 



The Washiugton Grays, the company to which I he- 
longed, was stationed at Portsmouth, N. C, awaiting 
transportation to join the Second North Carohna Regi- 
ment (then in Virginia), to which it had been assigned 
alter volunteering for the war. On August ^s, 1S()1, 
it was ordered to reinforce Hatteras in company with 
Tar River Boys, under Captain Johnson ; Morris Guards, 
under Major Gilham; and Hertford Light Infantry, 
under Captain Sharp. We proceeded from Portsmouth 
to Hatteras in lighters, and arrived there a little after 
sunset, and landed under a heavy fire from the Federal 
fleet. Fort Clark had been evacuated by the Confed- 
erates under Colonel VV. F. Martin, and its garrison 
had fallen back to Fort Hatterar^. The land forces of 
the Federals were on the beach. Immediately after 
our landing^ th;:> Federals ceased firing, and withdrew 
for the night. The Federals were commanded by Com- 
modore Stringlearn and General B. F. Butler. We slept 
on our arms all night, and at sunrise next morning 
the Federal fleet approached, and, after manoeuvering, 
opened fire upon Fort Hatteras. The position occupied 
by the fleet rendered it possible to luring only one or 
two guns of the Fort to bear upon it. 

These were smooth bore 82 -pounders. Most of our 
guns bore upon the inlet. The land forces kept beyond 
our range. During the first hours the fire of the fleet 
was at random doing little damage to the Fort ; later 
on, having secured perfect range and having brought 



The Cc:ifedemte Reveille. 125 

all their guns to bear, their firing became more serious, 
and for the last two or three hours the bombardment 
was terrific. Most of our guns were disabled, and about 
1 o'clock Commodore Barron, commanding the Confed- 
ei'ates, ordered the white flag hoisted, and we surren- 
dered soon after. Our force was about seven hundred. 
The Federal land forces made no demonstration upon 
our works. The garrison was taken upon the Federal 
flagship, Minnesota, to Governor's Island, New York 
harbor. No lives were lost, but several wounded. In 
addition to the other troops mentioned were the Roanoke 
Guards, under Captain Lamb, and a company from Le- 
noir, under Captain Sutton. W. H. Patrick. 
Washington, N. C, April S, 1898. 



LflDlES MEMORIflL ASSOCIflTION. 



Among the rich legacies bequeathed by the Southern 
Confederacy to its sons and daughters, none occupies a 
more hallowed niche than the record ot unfaltering loy- 
alty, true self abnegation, and loving devotion, which 
characterized the noble womanhood of the new born 
nation. Hearts that had never known self-confidence, 
began to prompt heroic deeds for the cause they loved; 
and hands that had been occupied only with dainty em- 
broideries, learned to knit the coarse socks and apply 
the bandage. 

To-day the same spirit is prompting those noble women 
and their daughters to erect everywhere within our bor- 
ders beautiful and costly monuments to the memory of 
our Confederate dead. 



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The Ladies Memorial Association of Beaufort County 
was organized September 3d, 18S3, by a number of the 
ladies of Washington, who assembled at the court-house 
in response to a call from Major Thomas Sparrow, who 
was the founder of the ex-Confederate Association, he 
being moved by the desire that history should do full 
justice to the part borne by the sons of I"orth Carolina 
in the gigantic struggle ; and that the memory of those 
who fell in her defense should be cherished. Its object 
was to co-operate with the ex-Confederate Association, 
in perpetuating the memory of our dead, and to gather 
the sacred dust of Confederate soldiers sleeping in the 
bosom of old Beaufoit, and place them side by side, then- 
last muster on earth, within the sacred precincts of the 
cemetery, o'ershadowed by a suitable monumeDt. erected 
to their memory. 

By faithful, untiring effort, their purpose has been 
accomplished, aad the work well done. The corner- 
stone of the handsome shaft that now graces Oakdale 
Cemetery, was laid May loth, 1887, with proper and 
impressive services, and it was unveiled May 10th, 1888. 
To-day it is completed with the life-like statate of a Con- 
federate soldier. 

Coming generations must be told the st3ry. There 
are graves to be kept green, and memories to be cher- 
ished. It is the privilege, and may it be the pleasure of 
every loyal Southern heart to aid and encourage the 
work of these Associations. J. B. G. 



The Confederate Reveille. 127 



REINTERMENT Of THE CONFEDERATE DEfID ^T 
WflSHINGTON, N. C. 

The Ladies Memorial Association had long desired to 
gather the sacred dust of those who bore our flag and 
died in defense of our own beautiful town, on Septem- 
ber 6, ir'68. At a meeting held in January they decided 
to do so, and requested Mrs. W, H. Call to perfect ar- 
rangements, which she did, with the efficient aid of Mr. 
Marshal] Jones, son of an ex-Confederate. 

We found them sleeping at ease, beneath the strag- 
gling boughs of an old storm-swept tree, just as the foe 
had placed them, side by side, in the sai^ie trench, heads 
and feet together, and one poor fellow lying face down- 
ward. We took as relics a cavalry man's hat, a piece 
of an old canteen, and a few buttons. The names of 
those removed who are known to us are: 

David Redditt, a loyal son of Beaufort County ; he was 
First Lieutenant Company B., Sixty -first Regiment. 

Eiley Laughinghouse, Caraway's Cavalry Company 
of Kinston. 

Hemy Clark, Thompson's Company, Griffin's Cavalry. 

Samuel Rogerson, member of Washington Grays, 
Tenth Regiment Heavy Artillery, 

Henry Stewart, Company B,, Tenth Regiment Artil- 
lery. 

William McDevitt, Company L, Third INorth Carolina 
State Troops. 

A member of Gray's Cavalry, name unknown. 

In the near future we will remove all of our dead to 



128 The Confederate ReveiUe. 

the monument plat. The Daughters of the Confederacy 
win continue this grand work. The Children of the 
Confederacy, Washington Grays' Chapter, will mark 
the graves of the ahove names, and also others. 

" Let the men whom Lee and Stonewall led, 
And the hearts that once together bled, 
Together let them sleep." 

Maggie Arthur Call. 



MEMORIflL D(\y AND OUR ORATOR. 



Perhaps the most distinguished private soldier among 
North Carolina's sons is our orator to-day, in the person 
of (yolonel Julian Shakespeare Carr, of Durham, N. C. 

It is said he never lost a single day's duty during the 
entire period of his services in the Confederacy. A 
favorite always among his comrades, he preferred to be 
simply a private, in order to be '' among the boys, " 
although he carried in his pocket a detail as an officer 
on the staff of General Barringer. The Ladies' Memo- 
rial Association of \A"ashington have been fortunate in 
securing so courtly and gallant a gentleman, and it 
seems peculiarly appropriate that at the unveiling of the 
statute on the Confederate monument to the Private 
Soldier, that Colonel Julian 8. Carr should be our gifted 
orator. 



PROGRAMME 
Memorial Day, May 10th, 1898, Washington. N. C. 



Part 1, 



Decoration of Graves. 9 a. m.— Ladies' Memorial Association, Pam- 
lico Chapter U. D. C. 




Colonel J. S. Carr. 



13(1 The Confederate Reveille. 

Part 2. 

Forming of Procession, 10 a. m., at Town Hall. 

Chief Marshal— Col. Frank M. Parker. Enfield. 

Assistant Marshals— Capt. T. M. Allen, Mr. Alston Grimes, Mr. R. R. 
Warren, Mr. J. J. Laugliinghouse, Mr. J. B. Sparrow, Mr. John W. 
Latham. 

Order of Procession — 

Washington Cornet Band. 

Washington Light Infantry. 

Bryan Grimes Camp. No. 424, U. C. V. 

Ex-Confederate Association. 

Co. K, 3d N. C. Cavalry, escort to the Orator of the Day. 

Carriage containing the Orator and President of the Ex-Confederate 
Association. 

Ladies' Memorial Association. 

Pamlico Chapter, U. D. C. 

Washington Grays Chapter, Children of the Confederacy. 

Public School Children. 

Citizens. 

Line of March — Market Street to Confederate Monument in Oakdale 
Cemetery. 

Part 3. 

Exercises at Confederate Monument— 

Music — Band. 

Prayer— Rev. C. M. Payne. D.D. 

Music — Choir. 

Introduction of Orator — Mr. J. Bryan Grimes. 

Oration — Hon. Julian S. Carr. 

Music — Clioir, 

Roll-call, Co. K, 3d N. C. Cavalry— Mr. Bog Slade. Orderly Sergeant. 

Roll-call, ex-Confederate Veterans— Rev. W. H. Call. 

Reading of the History of the Ladies' Memorial Association of Beau- 
fort County— Mrs. W. H. Call. 

Unveiling of Statue. "'The Private Soldier'" — Miss Mary Kathleen 
Bogart. 

Presentation of the I^Ionument to --The Lost Cause" — Miss Annie T. 
Bragaw. 

Receiving of the Monument to "The Lost Cause," in the name of the 
old soldiers— Rev. Nathaniel Harding. President of the Ex-Confederate 
Association. 

Music— Band. 



The Confederate Reveille. 131 

Decoration of the Mound around the Monument — Children of the 
Confederacy. 

Decoration of the Graves in the Cemetery — Ladies' Memorial Asso- 
ciation and Pamlico Chapter U. D, C. 

Closing Prayer and Benediction — Rev. Nathaniel Harding. 

Part 4. 

Procession will then be re-formed and march to tlie hall, where will 
be served the banquet given to the ex-Confederates and their guests. 
under the auspices of the Ladies' Memorial Association and Pamlico 
Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy. 



THE UNITED DAUGHTERS Of THE CONFEDERACY. 

In 1891 the Frank Cheatham Bivouac, of Mashville, 
Tennessee, appealed to the ladies of that city for aid in 
securing a Soldiers* Home for their disabled veterans. 
This Auxihary was formed, and after erecting a hand- 
some building for this purpose, on the farm formerly 
owned by General Andrew Jackson, they conceived the 
idea of merging themselves into an organization, known 
as " The Daughters of the Confederacy,'^ and resulted 
in the formation of the Nashville Chapter, May, 1893. 
This worthy action was followed in other Southern 
States, and at the ''called meeting," March, 1895, I 
state with pride that North Carolina was among the 
first, and only four Chapters then organized, viz. : Nash- 
ville, Tennessee, — Savannah, Geoigia. — Cape Fear Chap- 
ter, Wilmington, N. C, and Jackson, Tennessee. 

The original officers were: President, Mrs. M. G. Good- 
let, Tennessee; First Vice-President, Mrs. L. H. Raines, 
Georgia; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Kate Cabell, Cur- 
rie, Texas: Third Vice-President, Miss White May, Ten- 
nessee; Recording Secretary, Mrs. John P. Hickman, 
Tennessee; Corresponding Secretaty, Mrs. J. B. Linds- 
ley, Tennessee; Treasurer, Mrs. W. Maney, Tennessee. 



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Too much cannot be said of our loved President, Mrs. 
Goodlet, who has so faithfully given her time and heart 
to the establishment of this Association; and, as she 
graciously says, it has been with her a labor of love. 
We, the Daughters of North Carolina, tender to her our 
heartfelt gratitude and appreciation. 

Those entitled to membership of the United Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy are the widows, v/ives. mothers, 
sisters, nieces, and lineal descendents of such men as 
served honorably in the Confederate x\rmy. Navy or 
Civil Service; or women and their descendents who can 
give proof of personal service and loyal, material aid to 
the Confederacy. Our last annual Convention was held 
in Baltimore, November, 1S9T. Realizing the necessity 
of perfect union and accord among all women engaged 
in Confederate work. " The Grand Division of Virginia, '' 
a similar Association, offered to co-operate with us, and 
agreed to revise its ( -onstitution. Concessions were 
made on both sides and this Division allow^ed to preserve 
its organization intact and enter as a body of about two 
thousand members. The entire and total mebership of 
the United Daughters of the Confederacy now number- 
ing over ten thousand. Thus proving that the '' Lost 
Cause " can never die in the hearts of Southern women. 
The soul-stirring objects of this Association are educa- 
tional, benevolent, literary and memorial. Besides the 
erection of Confederate monuments in many of the 
Southern States, we have already placed headstones at 
many of the graves of our soldiers who died in North- 
ern prisons and are buried in their cemeteries. All the 
Chapters are enthusiastic in work pertainiug to the pre- 



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servation of the History of the Confederacy in its ho)i- 
ored integrity ; and through their effoL'ts histories that 
deal unfairly with the Confederacy have already in some 
States been abohshed. On the above subject the follovr- 
ing resolutions were adopted at our last Convention, 
November, 1897 : 

Kesolved, That we, the United Daughters of the Con- 
federacy, protest against the utterances emanating from 
the Chair of History in the University of the South, at 
Sewanee, Tennessee. The publication issued under the 
name, ' ' Southern Statesmen of the Old Regime, * ' and 
which owes its authorship to the Professor of History 
in that Institution, is not a fair or impartial criticism of 
either Mr. Calhoun or Mr. Davis, and, as such, tends to 
prejudice students against these prominent expounders 
of the doctrine of States's rights; also 

Kesolved, That in the opinion of the Daughters of the 
Confederacy, if the minds of the Southern youth are 
poisoned at the very fountain heads of learning, then, 
indeed, has come the conquest of opinion which Williaui 
CTilmore Simms feared would follow the conquest of 
war, and which, we believe, will be far more disastrous 
in its consequences. '• '^ "" Whereas, the school his- 
tories of the United States now in use in our Southern 
schools, coming from Northern authors and Northern 
publishing houses, do not properly set forth many mat- 
ters pertaining to the character of the Southern people 
and their peculiar institutions, habits and modes of liv- 
ing ; do not correctly state the causes that led up to the 
recent war between the States; misrepresent a great 
many of the happenings of that important era; leave 
out much that would redound to Southern patriotism 
and courage; and by the use of such terms as " rebel- 
lion, " " rebels, " ' * treason, ' ' and " ' traitors. ' ■ would 
give our children false ideas of our cause, of our people, 
and of their conduct ; therefore be it 

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134 The Confederate EeveiUe. 

Kesolved by the United Daughters of the Confed- 
eracy in Convention assembled, That reahzing the need 
of a true, unbiased, impartial school history of the 
United States in our Southern schools, wherein our 
Southern cause and Southern people shall be truly vin- 
dicated and set forth, we take immediate steps to secure 
the production and publication of the same : also, 

Eesolved, That we solicit the aid and patronage of all 
the Daughters who may desire to have our children 
taught the truth, unobscured by sectionalism or parti- 
sanship; and to that end we place the introduction of 
this history into our schools in the hands of each local 
branch of our organization. 

Among other works of the United Daughters of the 
Confederacy, the individual Chapters in the different 
States endeavor to care for the soldiers in their midst, 
and in those homes where poverty, age and sorrow have 
crept — also the ministering hand of our Daughters will 
be found, for ne'er was Soldier more loyal to the South 
— than Woman to the Soldier I 

The United Daughters of the Confederacy fully realize 
the importance of raising one hundred thousand dollars 
(,^100,000 ), requisite to the same generous amount offered 
by Mr. Rouss, as the Battle Abbey would secure im- 
mortal fame to our heroes and like our glorious, beauti- 
ful South itself, grandly and proudly assert : Men of the 
nation — we are not conquered ! 

Truly the South has had her Baptism of Sorrow — yea, 
her very heart hath bled, but the heroic spirit of the 
Confederate soldier survives in the hearts of the Sons 
and Daughters of this Land that we love. 

M. 0. G. 



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NORTH CflROLINA DIVISION UNITED DAUGHTERS 
OF THE CONFEDERACY. 



Organized April 28th, 1896. 



Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 



STATE OFFICERS. 

Will. M. Parsley, Wilmington President, 

Bryan Grimes. Washington .First Vice-President. 

John S. Henderson, Salisbury Second Vice-President. 

John W. Hinsdale, Raleigh Third Vice-President. 

Fanny L. Patton. Asheville Fourtli Vice-President. 

W. S. Parker, Henderson Fifth Vice-President. 

Kate McKimmon, Raleigh Recording Secretary. 

Martin S. Willard, Wilmington Corresponding Secretary. 

Gaston Meares, Wilmington Treasurer. 

Lida T. Rodman, Washington Registrar. 

Armistead Jones. Raleigh Historian. 



CAPE FEAR CHAPTER— WILMINGTON. 

No. of Charter, 3 -Date, Dacamber 34th, 18)4. 

OFFICERS. 

Parsley, Mrs. Wm. M President. 

Holmes, Mrs. Gabriel Vice-President. 

Sanders, Miss Mary F . . Recording Secretary. 

Borden. Mrs. H. L Corresponding Secretary. 

Meares. Miss -Mary F Treasurer. 

MEMBERS. 

Anderson. Miss Belle Emerson, Miss Annie 

Borden, Mrs. Hattie L. Gore, Miss Julia 

Brown, Mrs. C. C. Hedrick, Mrs. John J. 

Brown, Miss Maggie F. Huggins, Mrs. L. 

Bunting. Mrs. T. O. James, Miss Hettie 

Bunting. Miss M. L. James, Miss Julia R. 

Bolles. Miss Hannah James, Mrs. Josh. T. 

Belden. Miss Isabel James, Mrs. John C. 

Carmichael, Mrs. James Kenan, Miss Sarah G. 

Carmichael. Mrs WaJlace Lippitt, Mrs. Devereaux 

Calder. Miss Marv F. Lord, Miss Athalia 

Collier. Mrs. S. P. Legge, Miss Mary B. 

Davis, Mrs. Junius Maffitt, Miss Carrie D. 

De Rosset. Mrs. J. D. Meares, Mrs. Gaston 

De Rosset, Miss Kate Manning. Mrs. P. B. 

Dunn. Mrs. Fannie D. Myers. Mrs. Chas. D. 

Emerson, Mrs. H. M. Myers, Miss Carrie K. 

Emerson. Miss Elise Metts, Miss Eliza. 



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Moore. Mrs. Rop;er 
McQueen, Miss Sue 
Oldham, Mrs. Wm. P. 
Owen. Mrs. V. G. 
O'Connor, Mrs. M. R. 
O'Connor. Miss Mae I. 
Parsley, Mrs. Agnes M. 
Pemberton, Mrs. M. B. 
Price, Miss Bettie K. 
Pritchard, Mrs. G. (t. 
Rankin. Mrs. Jolm T. 
Rountree. Mrs. George 
Savage, Miss Anna P. 
Savage, Miss Isabel 



Sprunt, Mrs. T. E. 
Stevenson. Mrs. J. T. 
Stevenson, Miss Christine 
Stevenson. Mrs. Bettie J. 
Taylor. Mrs. John D. 
Tavlor. Miss Fannie 
Teiment, Mrs. H. T. 
Watson, Mrs. Mary L. 
Watters. Mrs. Kate L. 
Whiting, Mrs. W. H. C. 
Wiggins, Miss Bessie L. 
Willard. Mrs. E G. 
Woolvin, Mrs. J. K. 



fiS. 



PAMLICO CHAPTER, NO. 43— WASHINGTOX. 
Organized Januarv 27th. 189G. 



OFFICERS. 

Grimes, Mrs. Bryan President. 

Burbank. Mrs. Frontis First Vice-President. 

Hodges. Mrs. Robert Second Vice-President. 

Hoyt. Miss E. M. B K'ecording Secretary. 

Payne, IMrs. C. M Corresponding Secretary. 

Latham. Miss Elizabeth Treasurer. 

MEMBERS 

Avers. Mrs. Gallagher.. Miss Sal lie M. 

Burbank. Miss Jennie J. Grimes. Mrs. J. Bryan 

Burbank, Mrs. Mary Eliza Grimes. Miss Susan 

Burbank, Miss Je.ssie G. Grimes, Miss Theoilora 

Burbank. ]\Iiss Marv D. Grimes. Mis. Walter 

Blount. Mrs. T. W/ (Uiion. ]\Irs, O. H. 

Blount, Mrs. Henry N. Gaskill. Mrs. John 
Blount, Miss Margaret • Harding. Mrs. Nathaniel 

Brown, Mrs. Martha Harding. Miss Elizabeth 

Brown. Miss Charlotte Harding, Mrs. T. J. 

Bragaw, Miss Annie T. Haughton. Mrs. 

Bragavv. Mrs. S. C. Hodges. Mrs. R. T. 

Bright. Mrs. Julia Hoyt, Miss Margaret G. 

Branch, Mrs. W. A. B. Jarvis. Mrs. Jennie J. 

Beckwith. Mrs. S. T. Jarvis, Miss Annie 

Bogart. Miss Alice W. Jarvis, Mrs. Christine 

Call. Mrs Margaret Arthur Johnson. Mrs R. J. 

Carter. Mrs. Uavid ^i .lordan, Mrs. William 

Crumpler, Mrs. W. J. Jordan. Miss Julia 

Carraway. Miss Kate L. Knight. Mrs. Mary Eliza 

De Mille. Miss Annie Lewis. Mrs. Richard 

Ellsworth. Mrs. Arthur Latham. Mrs. Thos. J. 

Ellison. Miss P. A. Laughinghouse, Miss E. F. 



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Laughinghouse, Miss Hannah 
Morton. Mrs. W. B. 
McDonald. Mrs. John 
Marsh. Mrs. Nannie 
Myers, Miss Janie 
Mj'ers, Miss Penelope B. 
Myers. Miss Mary 
Mvers, Miss Olivia R. 
Monies, Miss Mary F. 
Monies. Miss Eleanor 
Mallison. ]\Iiss Lizzie 
Patrick. Miss Olivia B. 
Patrick, Miss Fannie 
Patrick. Miss Annie 



Ross, Mrs. John 
Rodman, Miss Lida T. 
Rodman. Mrs. W. B. 
lUissell. IMiss Mattie 
Smith. Mrs. Mary Grimes 
Saunders. Mrs. Fannie 
Saunders. Miss Susan 
Satciiwell, Miss Fannie 
Small. Mrs. J. H. 
Short, Mrs. Frank 
Short. Miss Addie Lee 
Tayloe. Miss Ella 
Tavloe. Mrs. Jos. F. 
Williams, Mrs. Alf. 



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WASHINTCiTOX GRAY CHAPTER OF THE CHrLDR^:N OF THE 

CONFKDERACY.* 

Organized October 9th. 1897. 

OFFICERS. 

Britlgman. ( elia President. 

Jar vis, Margaret First Vice-President. 

Gallagher. Olive Second Vice-President. 

Lalham. Clara _. Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

MEMBERS. 

Tripp. Martha Carrow. Annie 

Cutler, Estelle Mayo, Adeline 

Cordon. Nannie Hill, Lizzie 

Shaw, Hannah Mayo. Lizzie 

Jones, Annie Rum ley. Ma}' 

Chapin, Janie Tayloe. Sallie Bett 

Chapin, Argie Tayloe. Lucy 

Chapin. Julia Laughinghouse, Mattie 

Styron, May Laughingliouse, May 

Morton, Tilly Fowle, Winnie 

Morton. Irene Fowle, Caddie 

Small, May Belle Simmons, Claudie 

Blount, Muse Ellison, James 

Cordon, Etta Payne. Charley 

Farrow, Mary Bonner. George 

Doughty. Sadie Bonner. John 

Hodges. Olivia Payne. Tom. 

Gaskill, Annie Pearce. James 

Gaskill, Alex. MoDevit. Charley 

* Auxiliary to Pamlico Chapter until a State Division of Children of 
the Confederacy shall be organized. 



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Bogart. Kathleen 
Tingle. Leona 
Roberts, Fannie 
Roberts. Bonnie 
Hudnell, Effie 
Mitchell. Estelle 
Call, Sallie 
Brown, Ethel 
Traylor. Zolota 
Everet, Irene 
Payne, Annie 
Hardison. Courtney 
Peed, Mabel 
Henderson. Leiina 
Henderson, Inez 
Hardison. Bessie 
Manning. Allie 
Rue, Lizzie 
Carrol, Annie 
Myers. Sallie 



Hill. Willie 
Shaw. Linden 
Warren, Frederick 
Bonner, Eugene 
Short, Murray 
Williams, John 
Chauncey, Louise 
Buck man. Pattie 
Brabble, Laura 
Bright, Anise 
Bright. Carrie 
Beck with, Gladys 
Saunders. Mary 
Fowle. Rob. 
Fowle, David 
Moore, Henry 
Carawan, Lizzie 
Dupre. Rena 
Dupre, Inez 
Bridgman, Henry 



ROWA:^ CHAPTER— SALISBURY. 

N"j. of Charter, 78— Date, July 31, 1898. 



OFFICERS. 

Henderson. Mrs. Elizabeth B President. 

Beall, Mrs. Elizabeth H Vice-President. 

McNeely , Miss Fannie Re(!ording Secretary. 

Henderson. Miss Elizabeth B .Corresponding Secretary. 

Barker, Mrs. Mary J Treasurer. 

MEMBERS. 

Beall, Miss Caroline M. Murphy, Miss Kate 

Boyden. Mrs. May S. Neave, Mrs. Carrie H. 

Cain, Mrs. Sarah J. Neave, Mrs. Josephine 

Coit, Mrs. Anna M. Overman, Mrs. Flora Calhoun Keith 

Coit, Miss Josephine Overman, Mrs. Jennie W. W. 

Cole, Mrs. Sallie S. Rankin, Mrs. Annie R. 

Fisher, Mrs. Christian Rankin, Miss Jennie M. 

Henderson, Mrs. Mary S. Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. 

Holt, Mrs. Augusta ^ White, Mrs. Elizabeth 

Hunt, Miss Camille Holt Walker, Miss Henrietta Brooks 

McNeely. Mrs. Heniietta H. Wren, Miss Mary P. 

Montcastle. Mrs. Louise H. 

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RALEIGH CHAPTER, NO. 95— RALEIGH. 

OFFICERS. 

Hinsdale. Mrs. John W President. 

Jones, Mrs. Armistead Vice-President. 

Olds. Mr.s. F. A Recording Secretary. 

McKimnion, Miss Corresponding Secretary. 

Parker, Mrs. Annie Moore - Treasurer. 

MEMBERS. 

Andrews, Mrs. P. H. Jones, Miss Mary A, 

Branch, Mrs. L. O'B. Jones, Miss Florrie 

Bagley, Mrs. W. H. Jones, Miss Fannie 

Bridgers, Mrs. P. L. Jones. Mrs. Garland 

Bridgers, Miss Mary I. Jackson. Mrs. Herbert 

Cox. Mrs. Pierre B. Kendrick. Mrs. 

Devereux, Mrs. John Kimborough, Mrs. 

Devereux, Miss Landis, Mrs. 

Devereux, Miss Laura Mackay. Mrs. 

Dowd. Miss Mackay. Miss 

Engelhard, Mrs. John C. Mahler. Mrs. F. L. 

Gales. Miss Mahler, Miss 

Hines, Mrs. Peter E. Moffitt, Mrs. 

Hinsdale, Miss Elizabeth McPheeters. Mrs. 

Hinsdale. Miss Ellen McPheeters, Miss 

Hinsdale. Miss Annie Root Mrs. Chas. 

Hay, Mrs. T. T. Reynolds. Mrs. Wm. N. 

Hay, Miss Mary S. Shipp, Mrs. 

Hay, Miss Belle Stronach, Mrs. 

Haywood, Mrs. Hubert Stronach, Miss Annie 

Haywood, Miss Lucy Stronach, Miss Alice 

Haywood, Miss Etta Saunders, Miss Ann 

Hill, Miss Tempie Southerland. Mrs. Thos. R. 

Hill, Mrs. T. H. Venable, Mrs. Thos. V. 

Higgs, Miss Mattie A. Venable. Miss Gracie 

Higgs, Miss E. Gertrude Whitaker, Mrs. Spier 

Jones, Miss Nannie Whitaker, Miss Bessie 

59. 



ASHEVILLE CHAPTER, NO. 104— ASHE VILLE. 

OFFICERS. 

Patton, Fanny L President. 

Chambers, Clara A First Vice-President. 

Redwood, Susan T Second Vice-President. 

Child, M. E Recording Secretary. 

Ray. Nellie E Corresponding Secretary. 

Kepler, Martha W Treasurer. 

MEMBERS. 

Albright, J. W. Band, Annie W. 

Breese, Cornelia E. Cain. Edith C. 

Butler, Kate La P. Dickerson. F. Byrd 

Bryce, W. A. Duffield. Sarah E. 



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Davidson. E. A. 
Ellerbee. Blanche 
EUerbee, M. F. 
Fur man. Carrie D. 
Grant. Caroline 
Grant, Nannie M. 
Grant. Georgia 
Grant, M. Rose 
Hilliard, Mary D. 
Hilliard, Margaret 
Hatch. K, Julia 
Hatch, Susan E. 
Hatch. Emily E. 
Hume. Jane W. 
Jones. Mariella D. 
Lee. Sallie A. 
Lee, E. Elizabeth 
McDowell. Mary C. 
McDowell. Eliza C. 



Morrison, Ella H. 
Pleasant, Caroline L, 
Penland. Mollie B. 
Pegram, Kate C. 
Patton, Josie B. 
Patton. Martha B. 
Redwood, Helen T. 
Ray, Hattie E. 
Robinson, Mary D. 
Sawyer, Nancy C. 
Sawyer, Mary C. 
Stockton, Martha C. 
West, Sarah B. S. 
West, Laura M. 
West. Evelyn N. 
West, Augusta T. S. 
Woodbridge, M. A. E. 
Williamson, Addie D. 



50. 



VANCE COUNTY CHAPTER, NO. i42-HENDERSON. 

OFFICERS. 

Parker, Mrs. Lucy Closs . - - President. 

Harris, Mrs. Cary Page First Vice-President. 

Shannon, Mrs. Alice Blount Second Vice-President. 

Manning, Mrs. Fannie Lewis Third Vice-President. 

Davis, Mrs. Marie W. S Recording Secretarv. 

Perry, Mrs. Janie Hall .Corresponding Secretary. 

Shell. Mrs. Mattiebelle M Treasurer. 

Parham , Mrs. Maria Louise Historian . 

MEMBERS. 

Averett, Miss Emma Lassiter, Mrs. Ellen F. 

Barnes. Mrs. Ura Massenberg, Mrs. Carrie T. 

Blacknall, Miss Carrie T. Parham, Mrs. Fannie P. 

Burroughs, Mrs. Louise B. Perry, Miss Stella 

Burgwyn. Mrs. Maggie D. Pittman, Mrs. Harriett 

Cooper, Mrs. Sallie M. Shaw, Mrs. Jennie F. 
Lewis, Mrs. Carrie S. 

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NEW BERN CHAPTER— NEW BERN. 
Date of Charter, March 8th, 1898. 

OFFICERS. 

Hughes, Mrs. John President. 

Oliver, Miss Mary . _ _ Vice-President. 

Hendren, Miss Mary L Recording Secretary. 

Nash, Mrs. Mary McK Corresponding Secretary. 

Powell. Mrs. A. H Treasurer. 



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MEMBERS. 



Arendell, Miss Annie W. 
Arendell, Miss Carrie E. 
Biddle, Miss Lizzie 
Biddle, Mrs. James W. 
Brinson. Mrs. Kittie E. 
Bryan, Mrs Edward K. 
Bryan. Miss Mary Lane 
Chadwick, Miss Mabel 
Claypoole, Mrs. E. H. 
Dillingham. Mrs. Susan Stanly 
Duffy. Mrs. Chas. 
Ellis. Mrs. E. B. 
Henderson, Mrs. Lisette E. 
Hendren, Miss Caroline M. 
Hollister, Mrs. Sophia Jones 



85. 



Hollister, Miss Janet T. 
Hughes. Miss Jennie 
Hayman. Mrs. T. G. 
Hyinan, Miss Anna 
Jones. Miss Leali D. 
Jones. Miss Marie Louise 
Jones, Mrs. L. E. Mitchell 
Mitcliell. Mrs. Mary Meado\ys 
Powell, Mrs. A. B."^ 
PoNvell, Miss Pearl 
Roberts, \Jiss Mary C. 
Kountree. Miss Mattie 
Stevenson. Mrs. M De W. 
slover. Mrs. Charles 
Thomas, Miss Julia 



JAMES B. GORDON CHAPTER, NO. 211— WINSTON. 
Organized March 30, 1898. 

OFFICERS. 

Young, Mrs. John R President. 

Bitting, Mrs. J. A Eirst Vice-President. 

Williamson. Mrs. M. N Second Vice-President. 

Hall, Miss Delphine Recording Secretary. 

Whitaker, Jr.. Mrs. J. B ..Corresponding Secretary. 

Riggins, Mrs. Henry L. . Treasurer. 

COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS 

Nissen, Mrs. George Ogburn, Mrs. S. A. 

Norfleet. Mrs. M. W. Smith. Mrs. Samuel 

MEMBERS. 

Barber, Miss ^lay Magruder, Mrs. J. O. 

Blum, Miss Bessie Manly. Mrs Clement 

Brown, Mrs. W. T. Mc Arthur. Mrs. R. M. 

Brown, Mrs. (xeorge Mclver, Miss Lizzie 

Carter. Mrs. W. T. Mclver, Mrs. 

Casey. Mrs. Fannie J. Montague. Mrs. H. 

Conrad. Miss Mary Norfleet. Mrs. James K. 

Conrad, Miss Frances Ogburn. Miss Ella 

Colwell, Miss Abbie Owens, Mrs. B. B. 

Cromer, Miss Bessie Sheppard, Mrs. .lames 

Dowdy, Mrs. Nick Sheppard. Miss Carrie 

Fearrington. Mrs. Dr. '^helton, Mrs. Charles 

Follin. Mrs. G. A. Smith. Mrs. Bessie 

Gorrell, Miss Lucretia Thomas, Mrs. D. E. Los 

Gregory, Miss Carrie Whitaker, Mrs. W. A. 

Hay, Mrs. S. R. Whitaker, Miss Sallie J. 

Ireland, Miss Mabel Williams. Miss Eva 
Jefferson, Mrs. Kate J. 

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THE DODSON RAMSEUR CHAPTER— CONCORD. 

OFFICERS. 

Mrs. John P. Allison President. 

Mrs. J. C. Wadsworth Vice-President. 

Mrs. D. Branson Coltrane Secretary. 

Miss Rose Harris Treasurer. 



BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



Mi-s. J. M. Odell, 
Mrs. H. M. Barrow 
Mrs. A. B. Young, 



Bost, Mrs. D. Luther 
Brower, Mrs. R. A. 
Barrett, Miss Lila 
Brown, Miss Maude 
Cannon, Mrs. J. AV. 
Coltrane, Mrs. L. D. 
Cannon, Miss Nannie 
Durham, Mrs. S. J. 
Ervin, Miss Janie 
Gibson, Mrs. R. E. 
Gribson, Miss Kate 
Houston, Mrs. W. C. 
Hall, Mrs. E. H. 
Harris, Mrs. J. E. 
Harris, Miss Shelby H. 
Hill, Miss Lalla 



Mrs. R. A. Brown, 
Mrs. J. B. Sherrill, 
Miss Mary Dodson. 



MEMBERS. 



Irwin, Miss Sallie B. 
Lentz, Mrs. A. E. 
Leslie, Miss Laura 
Lore, Miss Lucy 
Leslie, Miss Lena 
Montgomery, Mrs. S. L. 
McDowell, Mrs. J. C. 
Montgomery, Miss Mary 
Montgomery, Miss Lucy 
Morrison, Miss Kate 
Means, Miss Pauline 
Ramseur, Mrs. E. R. 
Ramseur, Miss Mary 
Richmond, Miss Willie 
Stuart, Mrs. Will 
Young, Mrs. Robert 
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STONEWALL JACKSON CHAPTER-CHARLOTTE, N. C. 
Application for charter forwarded April 26th, 1898. 

]VAMES OIV APPLICATION. 

Mrs. M. A. Jackson President. 

Mrs. M. L. Barringer Vice-President. 

Mrs. Armistead Burrell Recording Secretary. 

Mrs. Laura M. Brown Corresponding Secretary. 

Miss Julia M. Alexander Treasurer. 

Miss Kate C. Shipp, Miss Sallie B. Hoke, 

Mrs. J. L. Chambers. 



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ORDER OF FORMATION OF CHAPTERS IN NORTH 
CAROLINA. 

1. Cape Fear, of Wilmington. 

2. Pamlico, of Washington. 

3. Rowan, of Salisbury. 

4. Raleigh, of Raleigh"! 

T). Asheville, of Asheville. 

6. Vance County, of Henderson. 

7. Newbern, of Newbern. 

8. James B. Cxordon, of Winston. 

9. Dodson Ramseur, of Concord. 
10. Stonewall Jackson, of Charlotte. 



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CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERflCY. 



On seeing an article in the leading Southern paper, 
the '' Atlanta Constitution," telling of a society formed 
by Mrs. D. H. Appicle, of Alexandria. Virginia, called 
the Arthur Herbert Chapter, Children of the Confeder- 
acy, we knew it was a step in the right direction. Our 
little folks know too little of the Civil War, we cannot 
afford to let bygones be bygones, though we cherish no 
ill feeling; we must hand down from generation to gen- 
eration the heroic deeds of those who wore the gray ; 
we must tell the truth to the children. The bravery 
and tireless endurance of the Confederate soldier should 
be instilled into every Southern child. 'Tis said women 
hide their dearest treasures in the corners of their heart, 
so it is with the women of the South. For a long, long- 
time the wound was too fresh and quivering to be held 
up for public gaze. We could not sing o^ their conquest, 
but were mute in our defeat. 

" Let the children tell the story 
Of the cause their father's led; 
For our sorrow seals our utterance 
And our silence shrines our dead." 

We placed a notice in the " Evening Messenger,'' Oc- 
tober 2, 1897, asking all children who had relatives in 
the Confederate service or aided the holy cause in any 
way, to meet at the town hall ; sixty-five children came 
and were enrolled as members. Since that time our 
number has increased to eighty-eight, and we confi- 
dently expect one hundred to march in line at the un- 



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veiling of our monument. At each meeting we instruct 
the children in the history of the South. 

We hope to see soon other Chapters throughout the 
State. Maggie Arthur Call. 



UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 



North Carolina Division. 
Headquarters at Wilmington, N. C. 



General William L. DeRossett. Major-General Commanding. 
Colonel Junius Davis. Adjutant-General and Chief-of-Staff. 

FIRST BRIGADE. 

General J. (i. Hall, Hickory. N. C Rrigadier-General Commanding. 

Lieutenant Colonel Louis G. Hay. Hickory, N. C Adjutant-General 
and Chief-of-Staff : 

CAMPS : 

No. 162. Catawba, ------ Hickory, N. C. 

212. Cabarrus Co. Confederate Vet. Asso., Concord, N. C. 

309. Charles F. Fisher. . . . . Salisbury, N. C. 

319. Col. Charles F. Fisher, - - - Salisbury, N. C. 

394. Col. Reuben Campbell, - - - Statesville, N. C. 

436. Norfleet. ------ Winston, N. C. 

486. Camp Ruffin, ----- Burlington, N. C. 

795. Guilford County. . . _ . Greensboro, N. C. 

797. Surry County, ----- Mount Airy, N. C. 

9.'32. Col. John T. Jones, - - - - Lenoir, N. C. 

SECOND BRIGADE. 

General William L. London, Pittsboro, N. C. Brigadier-General 
Commanding. 

Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Rencher, Pittsboro, N. C, Adjutant-General 
and Chief-of-Staff. 

CAMPS : 

No. 387. Leonidas J. Merritt. - - - - Pittsboro, N. G. 

382. Mecklenburg. Ciiarlotte, N. C. 

417. Ryan, ------- Red Springs, N. C. 



14:6 



The Confederate Reveille. 



CAMPS — continued. 

515. L. 0"B. Branch, ----- Raleigh, N. C. 

781. Walkup. ------ Monroe, N. C. 

818. Robert F. Webb, - - - - Durham, N. C. 

830. Richmond County, - - - - Rockingham, N. C. 

883. Walter R. Moore, - . - . Smithfield, N. C. 

846. Anson. ------ Wadesboro, N. C. 

852. Fayetteville, ----- Fayetteville, N. C. 

THIRD BRIGADE. 

General Frank M. Parker, Enfield, N. C, Brigadier-General Com- 
manding. 

Lieutenant-Colonel John P. Leach, Littleton, N. C, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral and Chief -of-Staff. 

CAMPS : 

No. 137. Sampson, ------ Clinton. N. C. 

254. Cape Fear. ------ Wilmington. N. C. 

326. Junius Daniel, ----- Littleton. N. C. 

424. Bryan Grimes. ----- Washington. N. C. 

794. Thomas Rufltin. ----- Goldsboro, N. C. 

845. John C. Lamb, ----- Williamston. N. C. 

894. Drysdale. ------ Snow Hill, N. C. 

984. Henry L. Wyatt. _ - - - Henderson. N. C. 

1058. Cary Whitaker. ----- Enfield, N. C. 

1057. James W. Cooke, . - - - - Beaufort, N. C. 

FOURTH BRIGADE. 

General James M. Ray. Asheville. N. C. Brigadier-General Com- 
manding. 

CAMPS : 

No. 801. Andrew Coleman. - - - - Bryson City, N. C. 

681. Zebulon Vance, ----- Asheville. N. C. 

848. Pink Welch. - . . - . Waynesville, N. C. 

914. Confederate Veteran. - - - - Marion, N. C. 

924. Confederate Veteran, - - - - Tryon. N. C. 

947. Cliarles L. Robinson, - - - - Franklin, N. C. 

958 Transylvania County, . _ _ Brevard, N. C. 

954. James R. Love, ----- Webster, N. C. 

955. J. J. Gambell, - - - - - Franklin. N. C. 

956. Confederate Veteran, - - . - Mur|)hy. N. C. 
1045. Cleveland County. - . - - Shelby. N. C. 



The Confederate Reveille. 14' 



STflFF OF WILLIAM L. DeROSSETT, MAJ -GEN, 
COMMANDING N. C. DIV. U. C. V. 



Junius Davis, Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff, 
Wilmington. 

Theodore F. Davidson, Inspector-General, Asheville. 

William J. Woodward, Chief Quartermaster, Wil- 
mington. 

Samuel H. Smith, Chief Commissary, Winston. 

John Gray Bynum, Judge-Advocate-General, Greens- 
boro. 

Joseph C. Shepherd, M. D., Surgeon-General, Wil- 
mington. 

Arthur B. Williams, Chief of Artillery, Fayetteville. 

A. G. Brenizer, Chief of (3rdnance, Charlotte. 
Eev. Nathaniel Harding, Chaplain, Washington, 

B. H. Cathey, Aide-de-Camp, Bryson City. 
Wilson G. Lamb, Aide-de-Camp, Williamston. 
Henry A. London, Aide-de-Camp, Pittsboro. 

John Badger Brown, Volunteer Aide-de-Camp, Balti- 
more, Maryland. 

Cicero R. Barker. Color Bearer, Salisburv. 



WIT AND HUMOR. 



It was well known throughout the army that Jack- 
son's favorite and first-love was the First Brigade, bet- 
ter known as the " Stonewall " Brigade. It was always 
"put in'' where the enemy was most stubborn and 



148 The Confederate Reveille. 

hardest to break. The morniDg after the battle of Port 
Republic, when the boys weie worn out with hard 
marching and harder fighting, and were resting on their 
arms, Chaplain dashed up. 

' ' What news ?' ' cried out many eager voices. ' ' Where 
are the Yankees ? ' ' 

'' With ()ld Nick, I hope,"' piously replied the Chap- 
lain. 

'' Well. I don't,'' replied one of the jaded boys, "^ for 
if old Stonewall knew^ that they were there, he would 
send the First Brigade after them.'' 



It was my fortune to Gpend the last twenty-one months 
of thew^ar at that delightful summer resort and favorite 
retreat of Confederate officers, know^n in '' the bills of 
mortality " as Johnson's Island. My mess-mate was 
Lieutenant B., Fifty-fifth North Carolina. One night 
a couple of prisoneis made their escape, and the next 
night- the prison yard was alive with men cautiously 
crawling about trying to '' follow suit." None, how- 
ever, succeeded, and on the return of my room mates 
they told the following on my friend George : George, 
they said, was crawling on hands and knees, down a 
ditch, which served as a screen, when, to his sudden 
disma5^ looking up, he saw a Yankee within six feet of 
him with his ' ' piece " at a " ready, ' ' and apparently 
about to blow my friends brains out. 

'' Don't shoot! " yelled George, springing up; '' Don't 
shoot, I surrender! " 

No answer from the Yank, and George, walking up, 
found that he had surrendered to a pump. 



The Confederate Reveille. * 149 

A good story which General Fitzhugh Lee tells of 
himself with infinite jest and humor: 

After Appomattox our trooper-General was trudging 
dejectedly back to his farm in Stafford, when he met a 
gray back with a gun hurrying to the front to rejoin the 
regiment. 

'' No use,'' said Fitz, shaking his head, '' Lee has sur- 
rendered.*' 

"What?'' exclaimed the soldier, standing petrified. 
" Did you say Lee had surrendered ? It's a lie." 

Upon the sad assurance being repeated, the poor fel- 
low burst into tears of mortification and rage, and 

blurted out: '' You can't make me believe that , 

that Uncle Eobert ever surrendered no how ! It 

must ha' been that foxy Fitz Lee! " 



A MODEL LETTER TO PRESIDENT DAVIS FROM A 
\OUNG LADY. 

" Dear Mr. President: I want 3^ou to let Jeemes', of 

Company , Fifth South Carolina Eegiment, come 

home to get married. Jeemes' is willin; Jeemes' 
mammy, she is willin, my mammy, she is willin, but 
Jeeme" Captain, he ain't willin. 

" Now, when we're all willin' 'ceptin Jeernes' Cap- 
tain, I think you might up and let Jeemes come home. 
I'll make him go right straight back, when he's done 
got married, and fight just as hard as ever. Your affec- 
tionate friend, etc.," 

Mr. Davis wrote on letter : ''Let Jeemes go;" and 
Jeemes came home, married the affectionate correspon- 



11 



150 " The Confederate Reveille. 

dent of Mr. Davis, and returned to his regiment, and 
did fight just as hard as ever. 



A certain officer of Company C, Ninth Virginia Cav- 
alry, was noted for his neatness and conseqently chaffed 
by the boys a good deal. In 1863 he passed through the 
camp of General Barringer's North Carolina Brigade. 
He sat with great dignity, and as erect as an arrow, and 
rode aJong amidst much bantering, as, "Good morning. 
General " : '' Come out of that hat," and '' Where did 
you get those boots ? *' etc. On arriving near the Gen- 
eral's tent, he was stopped by the Tar-heel Guard, who 
observed to him with great sympathy: "Don't you 
mind them boys, mister. They are always hollering at 
some fool going along here." 



Advertisements. 151 



DOBBIN & FERRALL, 

J23 and J25 Fayetteville St., 

"TUCKER'5 5TOR E," 

RALEIGH, N. C. 



North Carolina's Leading Dry Goods Establishment* 



We sell at lowest prices the best Dry Goods and Kindred Wares. 
The very fact that the}' are in our store and on our shelves guaran- 
tees that the}^ are the best. In this age of progress the best need 
not cost more than cheaper goods, and they do not at our store. 

We have a complete Mail Order Department, and give the very 
best attention to all orders. Try us. 

DOBBIN & FERRALL. 

ALFRED WILLIAMS & CO., 

RALEIQM, NORTM CAROLINA. 



We solicit 3'our orders purely on a basis of 
MKRIT. We give you publishers' prices 
and the quickest service. 

SPECIAL PRICE ON URGE ORDERS 

We sell everything in the Book and Sta- 
tioner}^ line. Catalogue and prices free 
on application. 



152 



Advertisements. 



Character 



THERE IS JUST AS MUCH DIFFER- 
ence in clothing as there is in people- 
some 3ire expres>«ive in their general ap- 
pearance -they have character. 

The style, desigh finish, workmanship, 
material - all contribute to the desired ef- 
fect. Such clothes cost no more than the 
ordinary. Our 



10 



Suits for Spring have all the essentials 
desired by an up to- date dresser, and for 
service they are equal to huits sold by 
others at a higher price. 

J. K. HOYT, 

PERFECT 

FITTING 

CLOTHIER, 

304, 306 W. Main St., Washington, D. C. 



THE- 



N. S. Fulford 

Hardware 

Company 



Are .... 
North Carolina 
Agents for the 



Washington, N. C. 



MARSH ^^^^ 
STEAM PUMP. 

The most economical, durable and 
cheapest sieam pump on the market. 

An inve.stigatioii into the merits of the 
Mars,h Pump will convince the most skep- 
tical 

They are also North Carolina agents for 
the celebrated 

GLADIATOR 

Cross-Stitched 
Rubber Belts. 

Absolutely the finest belt that can be 
produced at any cost 

Wriie them ior Catalogue and prices. 



To.... 

EX - CONFEDERATES 

and others: 

A call to arras may be finally imperative 
to settle ihc Cuban difficulty, but the sur- 
est way to secure permanent peace and 
prosperity for yourselves and posteiity is 
to buy from us the commodities and nec- 
essaries mentioned below, viz.: 

Insurance— 

In all its departments— best . 
companies— lowest rates. 

Fertilizers — 

for all crops— highest grade 
goods only— cheap. 

Cotton-Seed Meal— 

for crops and stock 

Potato Bug Poison. 

Truck Barrels. 

New Burlap Barrel Covers. 

special attention to shipment of truck. 

Agency for Buckeye Mowers. 

Your interests will be best served by 
conferring with us, personally or by mail, 
reijarding any line of our business before 
closing deals. 

WM. BRAGAW & CO., 

March 10, 1S9S. Washington, N. C. 



r 



E. M. SHORT ^ ^ 
LUMBER COMP'Y 



MANUFACTURKRS 

KILN DRIED N. C.J' 
PINE AND CYPRESS 
LUMBER J'JJ'J'J' 
AND PINE LOGS.^ 



J 



Advertisments. 



153 



Established 1865 
at the old stand 







All kind- of Repairing 
Neatly Doiif. 
Orders solicited 



MARKET STREET, 
Opposite Court House, 



Insure YOUR Life 



PENN MUTUAL, 



ARTHUR MAYO. Aj?ent, 
Washington, N. C. 

R. B. RANEY, Gen. Agt , 
Raleigh, N. C, 



■A 



N. C. HOME 
INSURANCE 
COMPANY, 



IN.su RES 
AGAINST 
LOSS BY 
FIRE. 



RALEIGH, N. C. 

ORGANIZED in 186S this HOME Com- 
pany has paid out for losses more 
than ONE MILLION DOLLARS to poli- 
cy holders in this State. 

Wm. Bragaw & Bro., Agents, 

Washington, N. C. 



MEMORIAL DAY. 

As this ^Memorial Number of the 
Reveille is a fitting tribute from the 
hands of the fair ladies to commemorate 
the heroism and virtues of those who so 
nobly defended the hearthstones of our 
sunny Southland, so is the "Big Racket 
Store" a never-ending source of supply 
for those who survived the great struggle i 
— their families and friends also. We carry 
the largest stock of Clothing, Furniture, 
etc , of au3^ similar store in Washington, 
and our enormous sales enable us tomake 
more moderate prices than most others 
can aflford. A cordial invitation to all. 
SPENCER BROS. CO., 

Props. "Big Racket Store." 



Fine Teas 
CoflFees 



ind 



M. T. ARCHBELL, 

Fancy Grocer. 



Specialties — 
Royal Flour. 
Fox River Butter, 
direct from creamery. 



If You Wish Fresh Candy 

Such as Chocolate Creams, Bon- 
Bons, Lime Drops, Stick Candy, 
Peanut and Cocoanut Brittle, call 
and see us We manufacture every 
piece of candy we handle. Our 
refreshing drinks and ice-cream, 
made by Duffy, have a State repu- 
tation. We have the finest Ice- 
cream Parlor in the State. •.•.•. •.•.• 

Washington Candy Factory, 

Luther Bryan & Co., 
112 Market St. 'Phone in. 



Wm. M. Bell, 

Jeweler^ 

Washington, N. C. 



154 



A dve rt ise m ents. 



CARTER & TAYLOE, 

322 West Main Street, 
Washington, N C,, 

LEADING Family ^ 
^ Grocers in the city. 



All goods fresh and reliable. Also, a 
staple line of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes 

When you want the best of everything 
to eat, ring up 'Phone No. 90. 



Kugler 
Cumber 

Washington, N. C. Manufacturers 

KILN-DRIED 
LUMBER. 



John C. Rodman, M.D., 

Physician and Surgeon, 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 



Oflfice: Main St. 



STEPHEN C. BRAGAW, 

Attorney and Counselor^ 

Washingtoti, N. C. 



D. T. TAYLOE. JOSH. TAYLOE. A. K. TAYLOE 

TayloB's Pharmacy. 



519 Main St., Washington, N. C. 



W. B. Rodman, W. Demsie Grimes, 

WASHINGTON, N. C. GREENVILLE, N. C. 

RODMAN & GRIMES, 
Attorneys and Counselors at Law, 

GREENVILLE, N. C. 
Practice Wherever Services Desired. 



W. A. BLOUNT. JNO, G. BLOUNT. 

Drs. WM. A. & JNO. 6. BLOUNT, 

WASMINGTON, N. C 



B. B. NICHOLSON, 

Attorney at Law, 

WASHI^GTON, N. C. 



H. SNELL. 



RHODES GALLAGHER. 



Drs. SNELL & GALLAGHER, 

Dentists, 

W ASHINGTOrsi. N. C. 



THOS. J. LATHAM, 

..Notary Public. 

OFFICE AT BANK OF WASHINGTON. 



CHAS. F- WARREN. 

Attorney at La^o), 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 



JNO. H, SMALL, 

Attorney at Law^ 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 



Advertisements. 



155 



GO TO- 



Gallagher^s 
Drug Store* 



....Established 1840. 



Quench Your Thirst 

AT 

McKeers... 
Soda Fountain* 



Established 1886. 

H. B. MAYO, 

Buyer and Shipper 
of all kinds of 

Country Produce 

Highest Cash Prices Paid. 

..Eureka Lumber Company.. 

INCORTO RATED, 

Geo. T. Leach, President and Manager. 
G. A, Phillips, Secretarj^ and Treasurer. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

NORTH CAROLINA PINE 

KILN DRIED. 



E. B, MOORE. Washington, N. C, 

Wholesale Shipper of 

FISH AND OYSTERS. 

Fresh fish carefullj' packed and 
shipped to all parts of the 
country Correspondence 
Soliciied 

THE NEW STORE! 



The Minor Parts 

Of a woraans wardrobe should have 
as much attention as the more impor- 
tant ones. We have a large stock of 
Lingerie, complete in style and finish 
that we are selling at a low price. 

R. A. KNIGHT'S ONE-PRICE STORE. 



THOMAS P. MOWARD. 
Livery, Sale, Feed 

and 

Exchange Stables, 

Centrally Located. Washington, N. C. 



USE KINGAN'S 

Reliable Shoulders, flavor unexcelled, 
wrapped in wihite parchment paper. 
Sold by all Grocers. 

USE ROYAL FLOUR 

Made by Voigt Milling Co.. Grand 
Rapids, Mich. The Premium Flour of 
the World Sold by K. K. Willis and 
M. T. Archbell. 

& Co., Di5t>.ihaingflgts..WaSlliDgtOIl,,N. C. 



C. H. STERLING, 



WHOLESALE 



.j^Fish and Oyster Dealer,*^ 

MARKET PIER, 
WASHINOTOM N, C. 



A FINE ASSORTMENT OF 

.Spring Goods, Latest Novelties... 

ALL AT LOWEST 
PRICES AT 

Thomas' Bargain House, 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 



REMEMBER. 



W. B. MORTON & CO., 

Keep constantly on hand a complete lire 
of Furniture, in fact, anything desired in 
that line. Also all grades and designs of 
Mattings, either for cash or on installmen t. 
Also Dry Goods and Notions. Call and 
examine their stock before purchasing. 
Bargains await you there. 



J, W. BRABBLE, 



SUCCESSOR TO 
H. E. STILLEY, 



Staple and Fancy Groceries. 

BJYER OF COUNTRY PRODUCE. 



Water St., 



WASHINGTON, N. C. 



156 



Advertisements. 



JOHN m. aASKiLL, s. R. FOWLE & SON, 



WHOLESALE 



Fish and Oyster T)edler, 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 



ARSHALL, 

ager. 



Hotel NicMioB.'^':: 

Centrally located on Main Street, 
One Block from Pamlico River, 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 

Good Service. Table Supplied with Best 
the Market Affords. Large Sample Room 
Free. Rates |2 oo per Day. 



WASHINGTON, N. C, 

IMPORTERS OF 

Molasses and Salt. 

Dealers in General 
Merchandise»«^«^ 



DAWSON & CO., 
Pianos, Organs, Sheet 
Music, Musical 
Merchandise, 



MAIN STREET, 



WASHINGTON, N. C. 



AT 



Brom's Ptarmacf, 



You will find a full line of 
Drugs, Chemicals, 
Stationery and Toilet 
Articles, Cigars, etc. 



1b. Susman 

ifurniture 

Compan^^t 



I, m. a. 



All orders sent us shall have prompt 
attention. Furniture shipped any- 
where in North Carolina* 



GEORGE H. HILL, 

Livery, Sale, Feed 
and Exchange Stables, 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 

Wholesale and Retail 

Dealer in Fine Confectioneries of ail Kinds 

Heavy and Fancy Groceries, 
Tobacco and Cigars. 
Mail orders receive prompt attention. 



No Excessive Sweetening 
at Tobacco Prices in 



R.J,B. 



Terms Cash. 



208 Main St, 



'Phone 104, 



MANUFACTURED 
ONLY BY 

R. J. REYNOLDS 
TOBACCO CO. 

WINSTON, N. C. 



Adveriiseynents. 15* 



) 



CHAS. M. WALSH, 

^STEAM^ 

Marble and Granite Works, 

PETERSBURG, VA. 



.MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, TABLETS... 



Manufacturer of 

^ Iron and Wire Fencing ^ 

For Cemeteries and other Purposes. 
Ji@°^Builder of Confederate Monument at Washing;ton, N. C» 

The first fiational Bank of Washington, N. C. 

CAPITAL STOCK, $50,000.00. 

Opened for Business May 9, 1895 - 



ACCOUNTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS SOLICITED 



Officers;-J. Iv. Fowle, Prest.; D. M.Carter, Vice-Prest.; A. M. Dumay, Cashier; 
T. F. Brown. Teller. 

Directors:- J. L. Fowle, D. M. Carter, S, T. Nicholson, C. M. Brown, E. K.Willis, 
A. M. Dumay, W. H. Whitley, Geo. T. Leach, Edwin Peterson. 

WM. B. RODMAN, i CMery Headache Powders 



^ attorney i 
W at law, i 



"the best remedy 
for headache " 



iOc. per Package. 



MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 1 DAVIS' PHARMACY, NEW BERN, N. C, 



158 



Advertisements. 



DRY GOODS, SHOES, 

NOTIONS, CARPETINGS, &C. 



]. B. HOLLAND, 

Pollock street, 
Ne<w Bern, N, C, 



CATEKS TO THE MOST 
REFINED AND CULTI- 
VATED TASTE 



L. H. CUTLER... 
HARDWARE CO. 



,,Heirdix>a.re of Every Descripti 

MIDDLE STREET,,, 
NEW BERN, N, C, 



1Bcw Bern's ©nlv ffiooh Store 



J< 



AGENT FOR 



FASHIONABLE STATIONERY 
AND LATEST MAGAZINES... 
SCHOOL BOOKS AND SCHOOL 

SUPPLIES A Specialty .... 
Mail Orders receive prompt attention. 

GEORGE N. EMMETT, 

101 MIDDLE ST., NEW BERN, N. C. 






MIDDLE STREET, 
NEW BERN. N, C. 



USE COLA 

Headache Powders. 

THE NERVE LULLABY. 
MADE BY 

C D, BRADHAM, 

NEW BERN, N. C. 



A. E. HIBBARD, 

DEALER IN 

.Wiatcbes, Clochs, Jcwelrv, 



REPAIRING 
NEATI.Y DONE. 



101 /middle St., 



IHew IBern, 1H. <E. 



SAMUEL L. COHN & SON 

FINE MEATS. . 
OF ALL KINDS. 

FINE STALL-FED BEEF A SPECIALTY. 

HI HEST CASH PRICES 

PAID FOR 

FAT CATTLE, DRESSED POULTRY, GREEN 

AND SMOKED SAUSAGES 

88 Middle St., New Bern, N. c. 



♦♦♦C J. McSorley & Co..- 

FRUITS, CONFECTIONS, 

TOBACCO 

SMOKERS' ARTICLES, &c. 

1bot and Cold Mm 
our Specialty.^^c^c^ 

NORTH COR. MIDDLE AND POLLOCK STS. 

NEW BERN, N. C 



artbur m. ificid, 
^ /iBanufacturfng Jeweler ^ 

Bsbeville, m. d. 



Our new illustrated catalogue cheerfully 
sent on application. 

4®=-See it before ordering. 



JOHN DUNN, 

THE FAMOUS CASH GROCER. 

Fancy Groceries. Family Supplies. 

Goods sold at lowest prices and 

delivered in any part of the city. 

Wholesale orders solicited from all parts 

of the country Lowest prices and 

satisfaction guaranteed. 

55 ipollocH St., IBew IBern, IB. C. 



Advertisements. 



159 



J. H. HACKBURN, 

Successor to 
Hackburn & Willett, 

Ladies' Eleaant Dry Goods Emporium. 

DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES. THE 

LATEST AND HANDSOMEST DRESS 

GOODS BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET. 

FAMILY GROCERIES. 

VISIT US 

Then you will surely patronize us, and 
then there will be happiness and perfect 
contentment unto your vine and fig tree. 

SAMPLES GLADLY MAILED ON APPLICATION. 



.^D. F. JARVIS,^ 

Dry Goods, Shoes. Notions. Carpetings. 
A most popular trading place. ... We carry 
one of the largest and most complete 
stocks in this section of the State. ... We 
mark goods low to sell them quick. ... We 
are headquarters for White Goods. Em- 
broideries and Laces. ... A large assort- 
ment of Farcy Silks for Waists. ... All at 
prices as low as can l)e obtained. ... We are 
always glad to show our goods, and will 
send samples on application. 

63 Pollock St , New Bern, N. C. 



THOMAS DANIELS, 

DEALER IN AND SHIPPER OF 

Cbe iTinest J^isb, iSysters, Clams, £scallops and Cerrapin* 

Orders Taken anil sollciied from all parts of tlie state and Promptly Filled. 

Special and careful attention paid to the selection, packing and shipping to all points. 
These articles in fresh c jndition can be transported to any points within the State on 
line of any railroad carrying expre.«s matter, and if ordered through me, will have 
that personal supervision in packing which insures satisfaction to purchasers. Orders 
filled immediately on arrival, night or day. 

Correspondence solicited and cheerfully answered. Middle Street, New Bern, N- C. 



CLARK & GUION, 

attorneys and 

Counselors at law 



Ipolloch street 



IHcw JBern, IH. (E. 



..K. R. JONES.. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 

Dealer in General 
Merchandise, ^ J' 

MIDDLE STREET, NEW BERN, N. C. 



N. NUNN & CO., 

SELLING AGENTS FOR 

HUYLER'S 

Delicious Bon Bons and Chocolates, 
NEW BERN, N. C. 



gcorge Slover, 

Hardware, Paints, 
Ariel Bicycles,*^ e^ 
Buck^s Stoves and Ranges. 
73 mmii St., IHewkrn, IB. (t. 



A TIP 



To those who like to be well and 
fashionably' dressed. We are 

ready to make our handsome and 
stylish stock of fabrics into perfect 
fittingsuitsin the latest styles We 
guarantee perfc-ct fit, handsome 
finish, elegance in style with everv 
garment we turn out. F, M. CHADWICK, 



DUFFY'S OlD-TIME 
MOLASSES KISSES 



ARE SIMPLY ELEGANT— THE 
FINEST. MADE OF PORTO 

RICO MOLASSES. 

Manufactured by the 
New Bern Candy Factory, 



101 MIDDLE ST., 



lEW BERN, 



103 Middle Street, 



New Bern, N. C. 



160 , Advertisements. 



JAS. A. Bryan, President. G. H. Roberts, Cashier. Thos. Daniels, Vice-President. 

Capital Stock, $100,000 1 632 Surplus Profits, $90,000 

THE NATIONAL BANK UF NEW BERNE, N. C. 

INCORPORATED 1865. 

DIRECTORS: 
jAS A. Bryan, J. H Hackburn, Thos. Danikls, E K. Bishop, 

G. H. Roberts, Chas. H. Bryan, L. Harvey, John Dunn. 



Superior facilities in every legitimate branch of the banking business. The interest 
of coriespondeuts carefully guarded and served. 

Collections and Remittances Promptly Made. 

Correspondence Solicited from Banks, Corporations. Firms and Individuals, with the 

assurance that the special endeavors of its officers will he to give you 

the be.'-t .service your varied interest require. 

DISCOUNT DAYS-TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. 



T. A. GREEfl, Prest E. H- IWEfiDOWS, V 

H. M. GROVES, Cashier. 



O. Marks Co., 

CITIZENS BANKj Dry Goods^ Shoes 

OF NEW BERNE, N. C, ' j TV/T'tt' 

..^Do a General Banking Business =<^ ^^^ iViUlmery. 

The accounts of Banks, Batikers, Cor- 
porations, Farmers. Merchants and others Our Spring stock is now nearly complete, 
received on favorable terms Prompt and and we can assure our cu-stouiers of the 

careful attention given to the interest of best values we have ever placed before 

our customers. Collections a Specialty. them. 

board of directors : 
Ferdinand Ulrich, E. H. Meadows 



Mai! Order 



J A. Meadows. Chas. Duffy, Jr. Requests are answered same day as 

Samuel W Ipock, Jas. Redmond, received. 

Chas. H. Fowler, Mayer Hahn, ,^ ^ ,^ 

J. W. Grainger. Thos A. (ireen, Q* MARKS CO*. 

E. W. Small wood, C E Fov, 

Geo. N Ives, W.F.Crockett. i NEW BERNE, N. C. 

S. Bridgeman, President. Thomas J. Latham, Cashier 

Jonathan Havens, Vice President. Tuos. J. Latham, Jr., Asst. Cashier. 

BANK OF WA5MINGTON, 

WASHINGTON, N. C, 

Organized in 1893. Chartered by the Legislaturs of North Carolina. 

DIRECTORS 



Dennis Simmons, Williamston. N. C. Dr. W. A. Blount. Washington, N. C. 

T. R. Davenport, Pactolus, N. C. Lewis Latham, Pantego, N. C. 

E W. Ayers, Washington, N. C. W. P. Baugham, Washington, N. C. 

Frank H. Short. Washington, N. C. Col. W. B. Rodman, Washington, N. C. 

Judge G. H. Brown, Jr.. Washington, N. C. 

CAPITAL STOCK, $50,000 

Surplus and Undivided Profits, $12,901.17. 

4@=-$9,000 in Dividends Paid to StocKboiders in '95, '96 ar)d '97. 

THOS. J. LATHAM, Cashier. 



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Notre Dame of Maryland 



COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES and 
PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. 



Charles Street Avenue, Extended, BALTIMORE, MD, 



Empowered by Charter to Confer Degrees. ^-^ Location Unsurpassed for 
Beauty and Healthfulness. t^^-^ Grounds Sixty-four Acres in extent. ^^^ 
Extensively Planned for Exercise and Recreation. -J^-^S New Buildings, 
constructed exclusively for educational purposes, furnished with every acces- 
sory for Comfort, Convenience and Safety. S-^S Direct rays of the sun in 
every room some time of the day. ^^^^ Drainage and Ventilation perfect 
as modern science can make them. ^^^^ Fine Library, Laboratory, Cabi- 
nets, and other equipments for illustrating the various branches of study. ^ 
Conducted by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. ^S-^ Teachers Specialists 
in every Department. ^t^-J* . Lectures by Scholars of National Reputation, 
Courses of Study Regular and Elective. S-^-^S Music, Art and Physical 
Culture. 

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THE FOLLOWING ARE AMONG THE MANY HUNDREDS OF SOUTHERN WOMEN 
EDUCA TEO AT NO THE DAME: 

North Caro/zw«— Daughters of Gen. Bryan Grimes, Daughters of Mr. J. J. Laugh- 
inghouse. Daughters of Judge F. C. Philips; Mrs. Pembroke Jones, Mrs. J. L,udlow 
Skinner, Misses Sadie Manly, Sallie Gotten and Eva O'Hagan. 

Fz>;^?"«m— Mrs. William Hardy, Mrs. Barton Wise, and Miss InezCarusi (renowned 
harpist). 

Georgia — Mrs. Gen. James Longstreet, Miss Julia Ridley, and Misses IvCila and 
Lizzie Venable. 

Maryland — Miss Rosa Sutro (the renowned pianist). Daughters of Richard Malcolm. 
Johnson, our well known Southern writer. The Misses Lathrop. 

South Carolina — Mr?. James Patrick, Mrs. Scott O'Connor. Miss Mary Patterson. 

Mississippi — Mrs. J. Morency Hayne, and daughters of Major George Waddill. 

Florida — Mrs. Edward Burgess and Mrs. Eva Kilkoff. 

Alabama— M.\ss Madge Parsons. 

Z,OM/.f/awa— Daughters of Dr. Wm. McCulloch, and Miss Katie Bealtie. 

Texas — Miss Martha Cunningham (authoress), and Misses Sullivan. 

Tennessee— Mrs. H. G. Saunders. 

District of Columbia — Miss Frances Benjamin Johnson, etc., etc. 



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Dennis Simmons, 

WILLIAMSTON, N. C. 

Presidtnt and Treasurer. 



J. D. Biggs. 

WILLIAMSTON, N. C, 

Secretary. 



T. W. Tilghman, 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 

Geueral Manager. 



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iVllJ-^i-^O ♦ Martin County, N. C. 

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One on the Chowan River, at Tunis, Hertford Co., N. C. 

THE 

Dennis Simmons ♦♦ 
Lumber Company 

WASHINGTON, N. C. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

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